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04-23-07, 03:47 PM
Fed wiring Social Security payments to illegals in Mexico?
Officials say no, but new task force probing 'growing' benefit fraud
By Jerome R. Corsi
Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington
Amid the U.S. government's acknowledgment of rampant document and benefit fraud, the Federal Reserve is wiring 26,000 Social Security payments every month to Mexicans south of the border.
Officials with the Federal Reserve and Social Security Administration insist payments are not going to illegal aliens but admit they cannot be certain. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has launched a new task force to address the "growing" problem of benefit fraud, including in the Social Security Administration.
Jean Tate, spokeswoman for the Federal Reserve, said 26,000 of the 27,000 payments made monthly via the Fed's "Directo a Mexico" service are for Social Security recipients.
Mark Lassiter, spokesman for the Social Security Administration, told WND he was not familiar with the Fed's Directo a México program.
Still, he insisted the payments had to be going to legal beneficiaries of Social Security.
"For example, if I am a U.S. citizen and I retire to Mexico, I can continue to draw my Social Security benefits while I am in Mexico," he explained. "Or maybe the person is a Mexican citizen who was legally in the U.S. and had a work-authorized Social Security number."
Lassiter told WND he was unaware of any study the Social Security Administration had conducted on the 26,000 monthly payments made through Directo a México.
He said he had no breakdown of the characteristics of the recipients.
Still, Lassiter insisted it was "highly unlikely" any of these 26,000 were receiving payments illegally in Mexico.
The Rest of the story.. (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55301)
Officials say no, but new task force probing 'growing' benefit fraud
By Jerome R. Corsi
Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington
Amid the U.S. government's acknowledgment of rampant document and benefit fraud, the Federal Reserve is wiring 26,000 Social Security payments every month to Mexicans south of the border.
Officials with the Federal Reserve and Social Security Administration insist payments are not going to illegal aliens but admit they cannot be certain. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has launched a new task force to address the "growing" problem of benefit fraud, including in the Social Security Administration.
Jean Tate, spokeswoman for the Federal Reserve, said 26,000 of the 27,000 payments made monthly via the Fed's "Directo a Mexico" service are for Social Security recipients.
Mark Lassiter, spokesman for the Social Security Administration, told WND he was not familiar with the Fed's Directo a México program.
Still, he insisted the payments had to be going to legal beneficiaries of Social Security.
"For example, if I am a U.S. citizen and I retire to Mexico, I can continue to draw my Social Security benefits while I am in Mexico," he explained. "Or maybe the person is a Mexican citizen who was legally in the U.S. and had a work-authorized Social Security number."
Lassiter told WND he was unaware of any study the Social Security Administration had conducted on the 26,000 monthly payments made through Directo a México.
He said he had no breakdown of the characteristics of the recipients.
Still, Lassiter insisted it was "highly unlikely" any of these 26,000 were receiving payments illegally in Mexico.
The Rest of the story.. (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55301)