Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Illegal Immigrants Bolstering Social Security With Billions

As the debate over Social Security heats up, the estimated seven million or so illegal immigrant workers in the United States are now providing the system with a subsidy of as much as $7 billion a year.

In 2002 alone, the last year with figures released by the Social Security Administration, nine million W-2's with incorrect Social Security numbers landed in the suspense file, accounting for $56 billion in earnings, or about 1.5 percent of total reported wages.
You know you start finding a billion here, a billion there, all of a sudden you are talking about real money.

via New York Times

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