Seems like if someone else was paying in to your Social Security fund, your monthly benefits at retirement would be a few dollars higher.
I wonder why it never seems to work out that way.
Does this mean that the person using a stolen SS# is also able to collect retirement benefits? So, IOW, one SS# results in more than one retirement account?
Or are the SSA employees somehow siphoning off the excess money paid in, and pocketing it? All it would take is computer know-how.
Answer - NO, "Why I ask?" "Because its not your money."
"It has gone into my SS account, that makes it mine."
"That money was erroneusly paid into your account by another person and that person's employer, so it belongs to the other person's SS savings." I continue, "But that person is illegally using my number, doesn't that matter?"
On and on it went but the end result is SS gets quite a bit of unaccounted for money that is needed for the shortfall each year. Social Security loves it when that happens because in cases like mine, they know someone else has illegally used my number and SS knows they will never have to pay it out!