Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud

Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud
Tim Mullen, 2008-02-13

Americans lost over 45 billion dollars in identity-related fraud in 2007. Reports are so commonplace that we've actually become de-sensitized to them. "200,000 victims reported..." "500,000 victims reported..." Even figures into the millions don't seem to faze us anymore. And that is a Bad Thing.

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Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud 2008-02-13
Bob

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Pete

Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud 2008-02-15
Anonymous

Very good article and I agree with most points. However I do disagree with the idea that "If a non-government entity requires the use of one?s SSN to be used or validated as part of its process model, the first step is for the validation bodies (both of them) to authenticate the status of the supplied SSN." because this idea of a "non-government entity" is really considered a private industry and the private industry is famous for mounting more charges on top of what the government is charging them just to make a profit. This idea to me will simply again penalize the poor and middle class. Now why as someone in the middle class want this to happen? Sure my information is crucial, but so is the money in my paycheck....

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Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud 2008-02-18
Anonymous

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Scott

wrong - just go back to the original intent 2008-02-21
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