Yes, plain as mud! It goes on to say that none of the "bennies" described therein are good enough reasons for them to bother with the paperwork to give somebody a SSN, so "just do without" seems to be the order of the day. They're getting them somehow.
I never knew some of those existed - like temporary assistance for needy families. I assume single people are not worth helping. But I really didn't know the gov't helped anybody with a program like that.
Congress wants to obfuscate and misdirect Americans so that they can write some more rules exactly like that example (there are over 5,000 related documents with ITIN and TIN), and create another oversight and approval committee. It is easy to call anybody that breaks one of those rules illegal. Problem is, it will make many more Americans criminals and require proving citizenship a daily routine. By dividing conservatives between the "deport them all" and "temporary guest worker authorization" groups, the Marxists know that they have a chance. Witness the outright glee of Kennedy today. Divided we will fall.