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May 13, 2008Testimony on Employment Eligibility Verification Systems and the Potential Impacts on SSA's Ability to Serve Retirees, People with Disabilities, and Workers. |
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From Center for Law and Social Policy: CLASP is nationally recognized as an expert on child support policy, including policies related to child support data bases, and consults regularly with federal security, educational and workforce prospects, and family stability of low-income children, youth and families. The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is a nonpartisan national legal advocacy organization that works to protect and promote the rights of low-income immigrants and their family members. CLASP and NILC are submitting testimony to express our opposition to using the National Directory of New Hires for purposes of establishing a mandatory electronic employment verification system (EEVS) as is proposed in the New Employee Verification Act of 2008 (HR 5515). Under the current EEVS, the E-Verify program, the system requires the employer to report if the worker is a U.S. citizen or immigrant authorized to work. If the worker is not a U.S. citizen, the employer must provide t r or I-94 number. The employer must also report what type of document the worker presented to prove his or her employment authorization and identity and the expiration date of that document, if applicable. If state child support programs have to divert resources to enforce immigration laws, there will be fewer resources available to establish and enforce child support orders leading to fewer children receiving support from their noncustodial parents. As it is, federal child support program funding was cut by 20 percent in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, and many states and county child support programs are laying off as many as a third of their enforcement workers.
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