A pending Totalization Agreement with Mexico could add more than 1.6 million Mexicans to the rolls and cost in excess of $207 billion by 2040 according to a new report released by TREA Senior Citizens League (TSCL). ...
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The Cost Of Illegal Earnings Under Totalization With Mexico
By Mary Johnson, Social Security and Medicare Policy Analyst for TREA Senior Citizens League May 2007 Summary On June 29, 2004, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) signed a totalization agreement with Mexic ...
Update: Totalization Is Hot Topic During TSCL Trustees Meetings On Capitol Hill
By Jamie McMillen, TSCL Legislative Assistant Recently the TREA Senior Citizens League (TSCL) Board of Trustees traveled to Capitol Hill for a week filled with meetings. The Board was able to meet with 7 Congressional ...
Unprecedented Growth In W2s For Illegals Threatens Social Security’s Solvency
TSCL Releases New Analysis Of The Cost Of Illegal Immigration An inconsistency between U.S. immigration law and Social Security threatens to undermine the Social Security benefits of millions of U.S. senior citizens. T ...
The Growing Cost Of Illegal Immigration To Social Security
Unprecedented Growth in Social Security's "Earnings Suspense File" By Mary Johnson, Social Security and Medicare Policy Analyst Summary A huge inconsistency between U.S. immigration law and Social Security threatens t ...
Illegal Workers Could Access Billions In Social Security Money, Says Social Security Administration
New "Earnings Suspense File" Report Shows 93 Percent Growth to $585 Billion Over Five Most Recent Years EMBARGOED UNTIL THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2007, 12:01 A.M. EASTERN March 29, 2007 (Washington, DC) – The "Earnings Susp ...
Immigration Proposals Would Add Billions In New Costs
TSCL Fighting To Ban Social Security For Illegal Work Immigration proposals that stalled a year ago are coming back to life. If allowed to gain "traction," an estimated 10 million illegal immigrants who are working in ...
TSCL Petitions Congress For “Redress Of Grievances”
Driven by public outrage over the flow of illegal immigrants across the borders, Congress is moving on controversial immigration legislation. Late last year, the House passed legislation that would require employers ...
U.S.-Mexico Totalization Agreement Raises Questions
TSCL's review of the Totalization Agreement and related documents raises a number of significant questions. For example, no new estimates of the cost of the agreement to the Social Security Trust Fund were released ...
Legal Loophole Allows Benefits Based On Illegal Work
A loop-hole in current Social Security law could allow millions of Mexican workers and their dependents to eventually collect Social Security benefits for earnings while working under fraudulent, or non-work-authoriz ...
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