-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 11:42 AM 12/12/96 -0800, Red Rackham wrote:

It seems to me that in the case of an employee giving the wrong number to his employer, the only person that suffers is the employee through loss of future payments from the Social Security Administration. The employer certainly doesn't suffer. Assume that the income tax is paid.

What laws would an employee violate? What are the chances of conviction? What are the likely penalties if convicted?

26 USC 7205(a), "Any individual required to supply information to his employer under section 3402 who willfully supplies false or fraudulent information . . shall, in addition to any other penalty provided by law, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both." 42 USC 408(a)(7)(A), "Whoever for the purpose of obtaining (for himself or any other person) any payment or any other benefit to which he (or such other person) is not entitled, or for the purpose of obtaining anything of value from any person, or for any other purpose . . with intent to deceive, falsely represents a number to be the social security account number assigned by the Secretary to him or to another person, when in fact such number is not the social security account number assigned by the Secretary to him or to such other person . . shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both." and 8 USC 1324a(b) requires that employers force employees to fill out a form to document citizenship status, and the form currently in use (INS I-9) requests a social security number. - -- Catfish Friend -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMrEM89GzuQsii+JdAQHc8wP/cKizciQHtI3ue/CdKJ62DbuPVlobRTl5 qY1oOQs3L3rb0mKa0FdklcfxaXYYMY0zJpGmGTSynDwJKGSCm5O6fPkCPG064LSp npMzmOqOWpUSrYX652Q8EMFPODHKCl0FX78ksQ1ns8Xv//bT4wdPt5GR6AlTrvdc XH1s/oB9tMM= =2xtm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Greg Broiles | US crypto export control policy in a nutshell: gbroiles@netbox.com | http://www.io.com/~gbroiles | Export jobs, not crypto. |