The Monitor
McALLEN -- On as many as 10 percent of the 250 million wage reports the Social Security Administration receives each year, names and social security numbers do not match.
The discrepancies could be innocent — bad handwriting, typos and marriages are reasons why names and numbers may not jive.
But the inconsistencies on a wage report could also mean an illegal alien using a falsified or stolen identity has filed a tax report.
The Social Security Administration sends some employers and employees “no-match” letters to inform them of nonmatching names and Social Security numbers. But currently, the Department of Homeland Security is prohibited by the tax code from accessing these files.
Posted by Richard at June 19, 2006