Social Security -UNITED STATES/MEXICO TOTALIZATION AGREEMENT

[Sven77]

This is a raid on Social Security folks. They are giving any Mexican who worked in the U.S. Social Security benefits. Even if they entered the country illegally.

here are some links

http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/factsheets/USandMexico-alt.htm
http://www.ssa.gov/legislation/testimony_091103.html
http://www.usbc.org/legislat/totalization.htm

[Jack_DeLeon]

1. well if they paid into the system...

they definately deserve something for that.

[wishlist]

2. Social Security can only go to workers who get legal status here

The only way illegals can get SS credits for their work is to become legal, get a legal SS number and provide proof of all of their earnings where SS taxes were taken out under a fake number.

An article documented in another DU thread yesterday showed how the Trust Funds are racking up
$6 Billion per year in SS taxes that will never be credited to the illegals who paid them, because they used fake numbers not established for them by SS and they cannot claim credit without becoming legal and providing wage records, which they are not doing.

U.S. has similar agreements with many other countries allowing their citizens who have worked here legally and paid into our system to draw Social Security when they meet all of the requirements to draw benefits such as being at least age 62 and paying in for at least 10 years.

There are many foreign workers from Mexico, Jamaica and elsewhere being brought in legally under special work permits by employers in the hotel and farming related businesses here in the Southeast where I live. This is a whole different issue though worthy of another discussion.

I would argue that foreign workers are mostly younger and their payroll tax contributions are a net gain that will continue boosting the SS funds for decades into the future.