[madprof98]

And how do you suggest that we do that?

Congress could also appropriate money for a nationwide computer system that would allow all employers to get instant verification of a worker's Social Security number and then require all employers to use it.

How is this so "onerous" that it will end summer jobs for teens?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That is already being done but a lot of the documents that we get have real numbers on them, they just don't belong to the person that is handing them to us. As I said, that leaves holes big enough to drive a truck through.

So on our own dime many employers are starting to do background checks on prospective employees. That catches more but depending if you want a statewide or a nation side search the charge is going to be between $200 and $500. That is onerous. And it is ending summer jobs. When it costs you $300.00 a pop to just weed out the bad apples you are not going to do it for someone that will be gone in three months.

[sinkspur]

Congress could also appropriate money for a nationwide computer system that would allow all employers to get instant verification of a worker's Social Security number and then require all employers to use it.

How is this so "onerous" that it will end summer jobs for teens?

Have you not heard of identity theft?

An employer in Dallas wrote in a letter to the editor to the Dallas Morning News that he can check SS numbers now. He got suspicious when he saw the same faces appearing, every day, with different SS numbers.

All the numbers were valid.