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Individuals with Earnings Before Receiving Work-authorized Social Security Numbers

Audit report number
A-03-16-50132
Management challenge
Secure Information Systems and Protect Sensitive Data
Full report
/~assets/audits/full/a-03-16-50132.pdf
Summary report
/~assets/audits/summary/a-03-16-50132summary.pdf

We issued this to determine whether noncitizen workers met the criteria of section 211 of the Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (SSPA) when they received credit for wages earned before they received their Social Security numbers (SSN). 

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