If somebody works on my social security number won’t that increase my benefits When I retire?
YES- But I bet you will complain when your checks are sent to them.
If he is using your name and SS number it is Identity theft, but Mexicans never steal a white man's identity because they are trying to get a name and id to pass the federal employee verification system.
Identity theft for the purpose of employment usually happens in the employers business. The people who make the fake ids bribes a clerk working in a packing plant who has access to all the employee files and can see which names have passed muster
I dunno. . .if the illegal filed for SS benefits using your SSN, then it would not.
I am an Enrolled Agent. We handle several cases of identity theft every tax season in the office where I work.
I have also worked IRS letters in the off-season the last 5 years. Illegals that use someone else’s SSN are usually self-employed contractors (1099-MISC Box 7). The illegal gets paid for their work but they never file their taxes. The 1099-MISC is under another person’s SSN so the income cannot be traced back to the illegal.
About 12-18 months after the person that belongs to this SSN files their return, the IRS computer system runs a match between the return and the documents for that SSN. The IRS computer will find this missing 1099-MISC and create a CP2000 mismatch letter with a big balance due for taxes, self-employment tax, interest, and possibly penalties.
An e-filed rejects for duplicate SSN for primary, spouse, or dependent SSN. Duplicate SSN is not always identity theft.
Sometimes a dependent files a return and mistakenly claims their own exemption before the parent files and claims the same exemption.
Divorced/separated/unwed parents who are feuding sometimes rush to file their return and claim the dependent out of spite even if they do not have the right to claim the dependent.
When it is identity theft, the return has to be mailed in with the Identity Theft Affidavit form 14039 attached. It can take the IRS more than 6 months to process the return. For the next several years, the IRS will probably issue the taxpayer an IP PIN that must be included on their return. If an IP PIN is issued, any return e-filed without the IP PIN automatically rejects.
Different name.
If somebody works on my social security number won’t that increase my benefits When I retire?
They will be retired collecting on your account and you won’t get anything.
I think the IRS has set up a special system for them. They don’t say, “ok, this guy is working in TX as a banker and in a chicken plant in AL.” They say, “The TX guy is the real one, put the AL one in this other account with an asterisk.”