Sailor (03-07-2021)
Sailor (03-07-2021)
Were you sent a tax form for a job you never had? Identity theft may be to blame
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/...-may-be-blame/
Maryland grants stimulus aid to undocumented immigrants, other noncitizens
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...117_story.html
Immigrants stealing U.S. Social Security numbers for jobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/w...d.2688618.html
Illegal immigrants turn to identity theft
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna22562690
The Truth About Social Security and Immigration
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2020...d-immigration/
The Truth About Undocumented Immigrants and Taxes
https://www.theatlantic.com/business...-taxes/499604/
Hundreds of thousands of Americans may be unknowingly lending their Social Security numbers to illegal immigrants. Government agencies and credit bureaus know this, but won't warn the victims.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6814673
There are several ways to get a Social Security card: The easiest way is to apply for a card as part of the immigration process in your home country before you come to the United States. You can do this when filing an application for an immigrant visa with the U.S. Department of State.
https://www.ssa.gov/people/immigrants/
When illegal aliens use a fake or stolen SSN, 6.2 percent of their earnings are sent to SSA to be credited to the workers' SSN account in the SSTF. 5 An equal amount is paid into the system by the employer. But if the SSA cannot match that worker with an SSN account (when the SSN is fake, or it is stolen, or the worker is using a different name and birth date) the funds are assigned to the Earnings Suspense Fund (ESF) and the employer and worker are notified of the mismatch. As the U.S. Department of Justice explains, “After SSA processes wage reports submitted by employers, the agency tries to resolve name/SSN discrepancies by sending no-match letters to employees, employers and self-employed individuals to inform them when a reported name or SSN does not match SSA's records.”
For a legal worker, this notification leads normally to a correction of the mistake, and the funds are moved from the ESF to the SSTF. For an illegal alien worker, the employer and worker may simply ignore the notification, or the employer may ask the employee to provide corrected data. That may lead to the illegal alien simply supplying a new fake SSN, with the withheld funds remaining in the ESF.
The Government Accountability Office stated in Congressional testimony in 2006 that “the ESF, which contained roughly 250 million records as of December 2004, appears to include an increasing number of records associated with probable unauthorized work” mostly from workers employed in “eating and drinking establishments and construction.”
https://www.fairus.org/issue/publica...-security-bank
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