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Senate Chairman Presses on Immigrant Social Security Numbers
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wants the Obama administration to spill more information about how many immigrants protected from deportation will receive Social Security numbers. In a Monday letter, Hatch charged that the Social Security Administration’s own projections suggest it’s not expecting to hand out an influx of new Social Security cards — despite the fact that Obama’s executive actions paved the way for immigrants to also potentially receive work permits and Social Security numbers….The president’s budget says that the Social Security Administration expects to handle requests for roughly 16 million new or replacement Social Security cards in fiscal 2016. The Obama administration also has said that it gave out, or expected to give out, 16 million Social Security cards in 2014 and 2015 as well. But Hatch is asking how that can be the case, given that the administration’s actions on immigration are likely to “significantly increase the number of SSNs that SSA will process, grant and complete.” Read More…