The Social Security Administration (SSA) will not send out no-match letters this year, an SSA spokesman told the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) on Nov. 13.

These letters are triggered when an employer has employees whose names and Social Security numbers do not match what is provided on the employer's W-2 form.

The decision to not send out the letters, brought about by the lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security's worksite enforcement regulations, means the SSA likely will not send out no-match letters until Spring of 2008, said SSA spokesman Mark Hinkle to the BNA.

"Because of the lawsuit, we needed to revise letters and it became apparent it was getting too late in the year to send them out," Hinkle said.

Jeanne Ramsay, SAF's senior director of government relations, says that while this is good news, "it is not a permanent fix, and there is still no subsitute for legislative reform. At this point, members need to comply with existing law."

Read more about the no-match letter debate.

--Vanessa Machir
vmachir@safnow.org

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