No-Match Enforcement on Hold Pending Appeal
"Employers will get a pass this year on rules that would have required firing illegal immigrants. The Social Security Administration says it will not mail out 'no-match' letters this year to more than 138,000 employers nationwide. The program was stymied because of a lawsuit by a coalition of labor, business and civil liberties groups. No-match letters inform employers that a worker's name and Social Security number don't match. There can be a variety of reasons, but sometimes that's because the worker is an illegal immigrant. The letters would have flagged 8.6 million workers nationwide. In Georgia, 4,669 employers will get a pass on the letters this year," the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
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