A stunning situation, like the SSA still lives in the pre-computer era.
Oh, I don’t think it’s a situation of not being aware, or savvy enough to identify the stolen use.
It is pretty easy to match up names, locations, times, etc. with a particular SSN, and for dual or multiple uses with any number of agencies.
The situation is that the SSA DOES know - they know everything, right down to keeping the true holder’s income tracking separate from the fake users. They wouldn’t want to overpay the legal owner of the number, would they.
They do nothing about this because of the MONEY they get. 6.2% of the illegals wages (and 6.2% from the employer) that they can pay out to somebody else. It’s free money to them.
The problem will be when Obama and the RINOs legitimize these people and they finally figure out they want all that prior fraudulent use (and payments) credited to a new SSN for them! It remains to be seen whether SSA with pull an IRS and ‘lose’ the information or not.
In any case, they KNOW - have known for decades.