Audit Reveals E-Verify Errors by the SSA Regarding Its Own New Hires
As reported by The Washington Times, the Social Security Administration (SSA) failed to run electronic employment verification (E-Verify) checks on 19% of the employees it hired in 2008 and 2009. The SSA, along with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, administers the E-Verify program.
The errors came to light during an audit by SSA’s investigator general which revealed that, of the new hires for whom E-Verify was not run, 44 individuals should have been flagged as tentative non-confirmations. The audit also found that 50% of the checks being audited were untimely. E-Verify’s terms of use require that a check be run within three days of an employee’s hiring. 1,874 of the checks were run too early, and 1,784 of the checks were run too late.
