<p>The Senate has passed a proposal to allow illegals with fake SS documents to collect SS. Another iron in the complex illegals fire.</p>
<p>Surely you jest.</p>
<p>This is most interesting since I was informed by my green-carded employee that while she <em>pays into</em> social security, she is not eligible to receive benefits from social security.</p>
<p>I do not believe that the green-card holder is right.</p>
<p>I also believe that the basis for the Senate proposal is that illegals with fake SS documents actually pay into SS. SS does not care who pays into the system, legal or illegal. If illegals are not going to be able to collect from SS, then this will be another way in which this country is benefitting from having illegals. :(</p>
<p>I haven’t looked it up … but this is what she told me when she commented on payroll deductions. She said something about having to sign paperwork related to her green card that acknowledged that FICA would be deducted, but that she would be ineligible to collect.</p>
<p>I hope she looks up the regulations. I was once a green card holder.</p>
<p>“If illegals are not going to be able to collect from SS, then this will be another way in which this country is benefitting from having illegals.”</p>
<p>This is currently the case, with undocumented workers paying over $8 billion into Social Security each year, without collecting on it. My mother is very thankful. If undocumented workers are deported, she may have to go back to work.</p>
<p>But no, the FICA is deducted, but there is no official paperwork that says one won’t collect. (Doing so would put employers in the position of “knowing” they were hiring someone illegally.)</p>
<p>I should have noted that this covers those who pay into SS under fake accts, etc.</p>