From The Guardian:
Millions of legal immigrants may be left unable to work after the US Social Security Administration quietly instituted a rule change to stop automatically issuing them social security numbers.
The Enumeration Beyond Entry program is an agreement between the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security, where US Citizenship and Immigration Services would provide social security with information from applicants for work authorization or naturalization.
The program began in 2017 under the first Trump administration.
Without any public notice, on 19 March, the program was halted, affecting millions of immigrants every year and burdening Social Security Administration offices, as those applicants will now have to visit a Social Security Administration office and apply separately to receive a social security number. …
The costs of issuing a social security number through this program in the same year, according to a Social Security Administration memo, was $8 per issuance, compared with $55.80 in a field office. …
3 comments:
This is beyond absurd.
Businesses occasionally sponsor employees to come to the US for short term assignments (which of course requires work authorization). When these people return home, they cannot file their income taxes because they are work authorized and do not have an SSN.
Exacerbating matters, SSA also recently suspended SS-5 interviews at federal benefits units overseas, so this would require people to literally come back to the US just to be enumerated so they can pay their US taxes. Understandably, they are reluctant to pay the expense in time and money to do that.
For those of you SSA decision makers reading this, tell Frank this is beyond stupid and bad for business. Reverse this. It's a huge hardship for the US business community.
Why is this cruel Charles?
Not to mention that DHS is placing about 1/2 of the people into suspense situations making them wait 4+ weeks to see if they are approved for a ssn. This has increased the workload astronomically.
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