[just mimi]

This has happened in cases in which an undocumented immigrant uses a relative's Social Security card to obtain work and then gets some of his wages deducted for Social Security purposes.

In one case, a Mexican man who used his father's Social Security number for nine years in the 1970s claimed after becoming a legal resident in 1989 that he was owed benefits. He began collecting benefits in 1999.

And a Mexican woman who worked illegally under an invalid Social Security number for six years in the 1990s later petitioned for credit. She began receiving disability benefits in 1999.

Aside from the illegality of their immigration status when paying social security taxes which apparently doesn't matter when attempting to collect benefits, isn't using someone else's social security number some type of fraud?

I might have to stop reading this crap or I will go completely insane.

[FITZ]

Obviously it's felony fraud to present stolen Social Security numbers. We're going to reward the very worst types ---- but don't worry ---- there will be plenty who will come up with a number and claim they used it ---- even though they never did ---- there is no way to prove they worked here.

[inquest]

I might have to stop reading this crap or I will go completely insane.

There's only one cure: spread it as far and wide as possible.