# Plain Language Summary: Consequences for Social Security Fraud Act

This bill makes it easier for the government to deport immigrants who commit Social Security fraud or identity document fraud. Specifically, it adds these crimes to the list of offenses that make someone ineligible to enter or stay in the United States. Right now, immigration law has certain crimes that automatically make someone deportable, and this bill expands that list to include Social Security fraud and related identity crimes.

The bill targets several types of fraud. The main ones are: using someone else's Social Security number or card fraudulently, creating or using fake identification documents, and committing fraud related to COVID-19 relief programs like small business loans and grants. If someone is convicted of any of these crimes—or even if they admit to doing it without being formally convicted—they become deportable. The government can also refuse to let them into the country in the first place if they've committed these offenses.

What this means in practice is that immigrants facing these specific fraud charges would have a much harder time staying in the United States. Previously, some of these crimes might not have automatically triggered deportation proceedings, but under this bill, they would. This applies to both people trying to enter the country and those already living here. The bill also covers conspiracies to commit these crimes, meaning someone could be deported even if they only helped plan the fraud rather than carrying it out themselves.

Consequences for Social Security Fraud Act

McClintock, Tom

Consequences for Social Security Fraud ActThis bill adds additional criminal offences to the grounds upon which a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) may be barred from admission into the United States or deported. Specifically, an individual who has been convicted of, or admits to committing, Social Security fraud, identification document fraud, or fraud related to COVID-19 financial assistance programs is inadmissible or deportable under the bill.