According to Homeland Secretary, Janet Napolitano, the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) will soon be proposing a new regulation that
would get rid of the 2007 No-Match Rule. The No-Match Rule was blocked
by court order just after it was issued; it has never taken effect. The
rule called for procedures that employers could follow after receiving
SSA No-Match letters or DHS notices that called into question
employment eligibility information provided by their employees.
These notices typically would provide information to employers that an
employee’s name and Social Security Number did not match SSA records
months after the employee hire date. Many times, these No-Match cases
were due to typographical errors or unreported name changes.
Napolitano and her department, who fully support the E-Verify program,
believe that E-Verify addresses data inaccuracies that result in some
No-Match cases and can better assess actual individuals unauthorized to
work in the U.S.
