Of course it does. Today, employers all over the US are getting “discrepancy” letters from the Social Security Administration when the name doesn’t match a SSN, or there are payroll taxes being paid on the same SSN from different employers hundreds (or thousands) of miles apart, etc.
As I’ve been thumping the tub here on FR, the issue has to fixed with a mandatory background check done by the employer, and the employers must be given safe harbor against civil and criminal charges when/if they don’t hire someone who failed the SSN/name/eligibility background check prior to employment. As it stands today, an employer is at the mercy of document mills, because you can’t choose which forms of ID out of the several the government accepts on the I-9, you can’t fire an employee when you get the SSA’s discrepancy letter, etc.
Employers must be given the tools and the ability to say “You don’t check out. No job for you.” or “The government just sent me a letter saying there’s a problem with your SSN. You have two weeks to fix it. If you don’t, you’re fired.”
The problem with the SSA’s checks into this multiple-people-using-one-SSN issue is that it takes them years to send out a letter of discrepancy. Years. It needs to happen within two months of the discrepancy appearing in the payroll tax submissions.
Couldn’t resist a “vexed” ping.
“Document Rental by Illegals Vexes Authorities Could allow illegals to work indefinitely”
Well what’s the new title? Undocumented Citizens