How to Handle an SSA No-Match Letter

Did you recently receive a “no-match” letter from the Social Security Administration (SSA) notifying you that an employee’s name and social security number (SSN) do not match agency records? If so, you received one of 575,000 no-match letters issued in March and April, the first of such letters sent in over a decade.The SSA first sent this type of controversial requests in 1993, but the program dwindled due to law suits from labor unions, immigration activists and the business community. It was eventually halted under the Obama administration in 2012. In July 2018, amidst a climate of greater immigration enforcement and President Trump’s Buy American, Hire American Executive Order, the SSA announced its intention to resume sending “no-match” letters in 2019.  

Now, no-match letters, or Employer Correction Requests, notifying employers of an SSN mismatch between the employer’s and SSA’s records have returned with a vengeance. These letters are still not evidence that…