The Social Security Administration SSA just announced it will resume its practice of notifying employers of discrepancies in employee paperwork through “no match letters”—a mechanism which threatens countless American jobs. Despite the Administration’s clear assertion that the letter “makes no statement” about a worker’s immigration status, employer confusion over the letters has led to erroneous firings and lost wages in the past, and threatens to be the case now. It is anticipated that over 1 million workers will be the subject of these letters.
Each year, employers file a Wage and Tax Statement Form W-2 with SSA and the Internal Revenue Service to report how much they paid their employees and how much they deducted in taxes from employees’ wages throughout the year. SSA sends a no-match letter when the names or Social Security numbers listed on an employer’s Form W 2 do not match SSA’s records. According to SSA’s Office of the Inspector General, more than 70 percent of the 17.8 million discrepancies in SSA’s database belong to native-born U.S. citizens............
Each year, employers file a Wage and Tax Statement Form W-2 with SSA and the Internal Revenue Service to report how much they paid their employees and how much they deducted in taxes from employees’ wages throughout the year. SSA sends a no-match letter when the names or Social Security numbers listed on an employer’s Form W 2 do not match SSA’s records. According to SSA’s Office of the Inspector General, more than 70 percent of the 17.8 million discrepancies in SSA’s database belong to native-born U.S. citizens............
