Sec. 526. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used by the Commissioner of Social Security or the Social Security Administration to pay the compensation of employees of the Social Security Administration to administer Social Security benefit payments, under any agreement between the United States and Mexico establishing totalization arrangements between the social security system established by title II of the Social Security Act and the social security system of Mexico, which would not otherwise be payable but for such agreement. [What is the point? There is no totalization arrangement with Mexico!]
Sec. 527. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be expended or obligated by the Commissioner of Social Security, for purposes of administering Social Security benefit payments under title II of the Social Security Act, to process claims for credit for quarters of coverage based on work performed under a social security account number that was not the claimant's number which is an offense prohibited under section 208 of the Social Security Act.
I hope that the provision prohibiting processing claims for credit for quarters of coverage obtained under a fraudulent Social Security number will not cause problems for people who have innocently fouled up their Social Security earnings record by giving an employer a mistaken Social Security number.
I have been unable to find a provision prohibiting payment of a salary to Andrew Biggs, the Deputy Commissioner of Social Security, who is serving under a recess appointment. A provision that would have prevented payment of a salary to Biggs had been in earlier versions of the bill.
I have been unable to find a provision prohibiting payment of a salary to Andrew Biggs, the Deputy Commissioner of Social Security, who is serving under a recess appointment. A provision that would have prevented payment of a salary to Biggs had been in earlier versions of the bill.
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http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/pr/USandMexico-pr-alt.htm
There is a totalization agreement with Mexico as of 2004.
The agreement has not been finalized to be put into operation. Currently you can't combine U.S. and Mexican Social Security for benefit eligibility. This just makes sure that doesn't happen.
Well if they would let the no match letters go out people that accidentally gave their employer the wrong SSN could be corrected.
Big difference in having been assigned an SSN and getting the numbers transposed and using a number you made up or stole that happens to be someone else's SSN.
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