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Memo: Illegals to Receive Social Security, Credit for Time Worked Illegally
Under President Obama’s rule, illegal immigrants will be eligible for Social Security payments — and they’ll be credited for the time they’ve been working illegally, in some cases. Obama’s executive actions — according to a Congressional Research Service [(CRS)] memo sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee and obtained by The Daily Caller — will permit illegals who qualify for the president’s program to earn Social Security payments….Therefore, illegal immigrants who have previously paid into the Social Security system — while using a fraudulent Social Security number, for instance — will be eligible for benefits derived from that system. Those benefits include retirement, disability and survivor payments. The CRS admits that some immigrants could have trouble proving that they were using a specific, fake Social Security number while working illegally….
In its pitches for public buy-in, the White House has given conflicting stories about whether illegals will be eligible for Social Security payments. When Obama announced his executive action back in November 2014, a White House official claimed that affected illegal immigrants wouldn’t be eligible for Social Security payments. But by December, the White House had reversed course, claiming that the official misspoke. Read More…