R-1 religous workers' use of Social Security numbers
The Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") of the Social Security Administration ("SSA") recently released a report on Religous workers' use of Social Security numbers. The religious worker program has come under a great deal of scrutiny lately because of alleged fraud. The objectives of the study were to (1) assess Social Security number (SSN) use by non-immigrants with a religious worker classification as well as to (2) evaluate Social Security's own internal processing procedures. I will discuss the results of the first objective.
In order to conduct the study, the OIG selected a population of 5,392 nonimmigrants to whom SSA assigned original SSN's based on evidence that they were R-1 religious workers from April 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006. From this population they randomly selected a sample of 200 records to assess R-1 religious workers' use of SSNs. The OIG found that some religious workers were using their SSNs for purposes other than to work for their sponsoring religious worker organizations.
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