But in the absence of any enforcement of the law. any incentive to clean up those numbers. any incentive for employers to comply with the law. any infrastructure that allows people to check to determine whether this is a person who can legally work. this is the kind of fraud that occurs. For 3.5 million records. employers used the same Social Security number to report earnings for multiple workers in a single tax year. The truth is. the Government is decades behind the private sector when It comes to document integrity. Maybe what we ought to do is issue a contract and outsource this to MasterCharge and Visa. Maybe they can do a better job. The fact Is. this is embarrassing and intolerable and inexcusable conduct on the part of the Federal Government.