social security

[queenv]

for five years i worked with a fake social# and I finally got my work permit and real social security number. I know a few people have said you can easily take your new social to SSA and they will transfer the records to the new number with no questions asked. my thing is, I owe the IRS some dollars, wouldnt they catch me? Also i changed my name to my married name, would this be a problem? My main worry is IRS. I really dont have the twelve hundred to give them. I am a new person with a new name, new social, no nothing on my credit. I realy dont want my past to follow me.

Anyone done it?

[JustMe]

Why don't you make payments? They will find out sooner or later.
I don't think it is a good idea.

[TracyTN]

You don't have a 'new' SSN - you have only one social security number as far as the SSA is concerned (as the other one was fake). Its more harm to you, really, as you paid in to social security and medicare with that fake SSN; you'll never have access to the funds that you paid in with that number.

[mrs.Lema623]

I just started this process and I am not to sure about certain things. Will they ask my huisband or I if he has ever used a fake SS#? If so what shoudl we say? If we say No is there a way they can find out, and if we say yes (the truth) do we run the chance of more problems?

[hectorswife]

My husband used a fake ssn and he told our attorney all about it. It wasn't listed on the documents or anything, though. About the IRS, we ratted ourselves out on purpose. We had his employer file a W-2c for all of the years that he used the fake #, which the irs said would link his new ss# with the old one for those years and would also transfer all the social security that he paid in before. We will owe some money, probably a lot, but it's worth it.. our attorney said to be just as afraid of the IRS as the INS...