Problems with Employer Verification System

The Immigration Policy Center has a new report (view the report), outlining some of the problems with using the SSA Databse for the proposed e-verification system such as the one found in the SAVE Act.

According to the report:

-A mandatory employment verification system would mean that the country’s 7.4 million employers would have to sign up for the program. Currently, only 55,000 employers are using the E-Verify employment verification system—less than one percent of all employers.

-In 2007, the president of the National Council of Social Security Management Associations, Inc. testified that a mandatory EEVS could “cripple SSA’s service capabilities” and negate any progress in addressing the backlog of applications for disability benefits. 

-There are 60 million phone calls directed to SSA Field Offices each year—and over half of callers received a busy signal.

-A harbinger of how SSA might function in the future was revealed in problems with the accuracy of SSA’s death information in which healthy Americans have been declared “dead.” As a result, they have lost their health insurance, their tax returns have been rejected, and their credit card accounts have been closed. In 2006, the SSA Inspector General discovered that SSA officials had to “resurrect” 23,366 people between January 2004 and September 2005; meaning that the agency had inadvertently “killed” more than 1,100 people a month—or 35 per day.

If the no-match were implimented, they could also potentially lose their jobs. 

Posted on Friday, March 14 | Permalink