Social Security fraud eyed

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 | By Stephen Dinan

[JohnHuang2]

More than 100,000 noncitizens may have obtained Social Security numbers in 2000 using fraudulent documents, according to a Social Security Administration report examining use of the numbers in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

James G. Huse Jr., the agency's inspector general, said the agency has been issuing numbers to noncitizens without completely verifying the authenticity of the supporting documents.

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Quote of the Day by Jorge

[Uncle Bill]

BTTT

[TheLion]

Why am I not suprised at this insanity.

[FITZ]

With the computers we have today, cleaning out the Social Security number databases shouldn't be too difficult. It would seem they could compare names with naturalized citizens and start checking on those who committed fraud to obtain a Social Security number, also start harshly punishing those participating in all this.