TITLE II—STUDIES RELATING TO 
THE INTEGRITY OF APPLICA-
TIONS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY 
ACCOUNT NUMBERS AND SO-
CIAL SECURITY CARDS 
SEC. 201. STUDY RELATING TO USE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC 
IDENTIFICATION IN CONNECTION WITH AP-
PLICATIONS FOR BENEFITS, SOCIAL SECU-
RITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS, AND SOCIAL SECU-
RITY CARDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of 
Social Security shall undertake a study to— 
(1) determine the best method of requiring and 
obtaining photographic identification of applicants 
for old-age, survivors, and disability insurance bene-
fits under title II of the Social Security Act, for a 
social security account number, or for a replacement 
social security card, and of providing for reasonable 
exceptions to any requirement for photographic iden-
tification of such applicants that may be necessary 
to promote efficient and effective administration of 
this title, and 
(2) evaluate the benefits and costs of instituting 
such a requirement for photographic identification,
including the degree to which the security and integ-
rity of the old-age, survivors, and disability insur-
ance program would be enhanced. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall 
report to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the 
Senate regarding the results of the study undertaken 
under paragraph (1). Such report shall contain such rec-
ommendations for legislative changes as the Commissioner 
considers necessary relating to requirements for photo-
graphic identification of applicants described in subsection 
(a). 
SEC. 202. STUDY RELATING TO MODIFICATION OF THE SO-
CIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERING SYS-
TEM TO SHOW WORK AUTHORIZATION STA-
TUS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of 
Social Security, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, shall undertake a study to examine 
the best method of modifying the social security account 
number assigned to individuals who— 
(1) are not citizens of the United States,
(2) have not been admitted for permanent resi-
dence, and 
(3) are not authorized by the Secretary of 
Homeland Security to work in the United States, or 
are so authorized subject to one or more restrictions, 
so as to include an indication of such lack of authorization 
to work or such restrictions on such an authorization. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner shall re-
port to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the 
Senate regarding the results of the study undertaken 
under this section. Such report shall include the Commis-
sioner’s recommendations of feasible options for modifying 
the social security account number in the manner de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
TITLE III—ENFORCEMENT 
SEC. 301. NEW CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR MISUSE OF SO-
CIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 208(a) of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 408(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (7), by adding after subpara-
graph (C) the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(D) with intent to deceive, discloses, sells, 
or transfers his own social security account
number, assigned to him by the Commissioner 
of Social Security (in the exercise of the Com-
missioner’s authority under section 205(c)(2) to 
establish and maintain records), to any person; 
or’’; 
(2) in paragraph (8), by adding ‘‘or’’ at the 
end; and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (8) the fol-
lowing new paragraphs: 
‘‘(9) without lawful authority, offers, for a fee, 
to acquire for any individual, or to assist in acquir-
ing for any individual, an additional social security 
account number or a number that purports to be a 
social security account number; or 
‘‘(10) being an officer or employee of any exec-
utive, legislative, or judicial agency or instrumen-
tality of the Federal Government or of a State or 
political subdivision thereof (or a person acting as 
an agent of such an agency or instrumentality), will-
fully acts or fails to act so as to cause a violation 
of section 205(c)(2)(C)(xi); or 
‘‘(11) being an officer or employee of any exec-
utive, legislative, or judicial agency or instrumen-
tality of the Federal Government or of a State or 
political subdivision thereof (or a person acting as
an agent of such an agency or instrumentality) in 
possession of any individual’s social security account 
number (or an officer or employee thereof or a per-
son acting as an agent thereof), willfully acts or fails 
to act so as to cause a violation of clause (vi)(II), 
(x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), or (xiv) of section 205(c)(2)(C); 
or 
‘‘(12) being a trustee appointed in a case under 
title 11, United States Code (or an officer or em-
ployee thereof or a person acting as an agent there-
of), willfully acts or fails to act so as to cause a vio-
lation of clause (x), (xi), or (xiv) of section 
205(c)(2)(C);’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATES.—Paragraphs (7)(D) and (9) 
of section 208(a) of the Social Security Act (added by sub-
section (a)(2)) shall apply with respect to each violation 
occurring after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Paragraphs (10), (11), and (12) of section 208(a) of such 
Act (added by subsection (a)(2)) shall apply with respect 
to each violation occurring on or after the effective date 
applicable with respect to such violation under title I. 
SEC. 302. EXTENSION OF CIVIL MONETARY PENALTY AU-
THORITY. 
(a) APPLICATION OF CIVIL MONEY PENALTIES TO 
ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS.—Section 1129(a)
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a–8(a)) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; 
(2) by designating the last sentence of para-
graph (1) as a new paragraph (2), appearing after 
and below paragraph (1); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) (as des-
ignated under paragraph (2) of this subsection) the 
following: 
‘‘(3) Any person (including an organization, agency, 
or other entity) who— 
‘‘(A) uses a social security account number that 
such person knows or should know has been as-
signed by the Commissioner of Social Security (in an 
exercise of authority under section 205(c)(2) to es-
tablish and maintain records) on the basis of false 
information furnished to the Commissioner by any 
person; 
‘‘(B) falsely represents a number to be the so-
cial security account number assigned by the Com-
missioner of Social Security to any individual, when 
such person knows or should know that such number 
is not the social security account number assigned 
by the Commissioner to such individual;
‘‘(C) knowingly alters a social security card 
issued by the Commissioner of Social Security, or 
possesses such a card with intent to alter it; 
‘‘(D) knowingly buys or sells a card that is, or 
purports to be, a card issued by the Commissioner 
of Social Security, or possesses such a card with in-
tent to buy or sell it; 
‘‘(E) counterfeits a social security card, or pos-
sesses a counterfeit social security card with intent 
to buy or sell it; 
‘‘(F) discloses, uses, compels the disclosure of, 
or knowingly sells or purchases the social security 
account number of any person in violation of the 
laws of the United States; 
‘‘(G) with intent to deceive the Commissioner of 
Social Security as to such person’s true identity (or 
the true identity of any other person), furnishes or 
causes to be furnished false information to the Com-
missioner with respect to any information required 
by the Commissioner in connection with the estab-
lishment and maintenance of the records provided 
for in section 205(c)(2); 
‘‘(H) without lawful authority, offers, for a fee, 
to acquire for any individual, or to assist in acquir-
ing for any individual, an additional social security
account number or a number which purports to be 
a social security account number; 
‘‘(I) with intent to deceive, discloses, sells, or 
transfers his own social security account number, as-
signed to him by the Commissioner of Social Secu-
rity under section 205(c)(2)(B), to any person; 
‘‘(J) being an officer or employee of any execu-
tive, legislative, or judicial agency or instrumentality 
of the Federal Government or of a State or political 
subdivision thereof (or a person acting as an agent 
of such an agency or instrumentality), in possession 
of any individual’s social security account number, 
willfully acts or fails to act so as to cause a violation 
of clause (vi)(II), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), or (xiv) of 
section 205(c)(2)(C); 
‘‘(K) being a trustee appointed in a case under 
title 11, United States Code (or an officer or em-
ployee thereof or a person acting as an agent there-
of), willfully acts or fails to act so as to cause a vio-
lation of clause (x), (xi), or (xiv) of section 
205(c)(2)(C); 
‘‘(L) violates section 208A (relating to prohibi-
tion of the sale, purchase, or display of the social se-
curity account number in the private sector); or
‘‘(M) violates section 208B (relating to fraud by 
social security administration employees); 
shall be subject to, in addition to any other penalties that 
may be prescribed by law, a civil money penalty of not 
more than $5,000 for each violation. Such person shall 
also be subject to an assessment, in lieu of damages sus-
tained by the United States resulting from such violation, 
of not more than twice the amount of any benefits or pay-
ments paid as a result of such violation.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATES.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply with respect to violations com-
mitted after the date of the enactment of this Act, except 
that subparagraphs (J), (K), (L), and (M) of section 
1129(a)(3) of the Social Security Act (added by subsection 
(a)) shall apply with respect to violations occurring on or 
after the effective date provided in connection with such 
violations under title I. 
SEC. 303. CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE 
SOCIAL 
SECURITY 
ADMINISTRATION 
WHO 
KNOWINGLY AND FRAUDULENTLY ISSUE SO-
CIAL SECURITY CARDS OR SOCIAL SECURITY 
ACCOUNT NUMBERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title II of the Social Security Act 
(as amended by the preceding provisions of this Act) is
amended further by inserting after section 208A the fol-
lowing new section: 
‘‘FRAUD BY SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
EMPLOYEES 
‘‘SEC. 208B. (a) Whoever is an employee of the So-
cial Security Administration and knowingly and fraudu-
lently sells or transfers one or more social security account 
numbers or social security cards shall be guilty of a felony 
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined under title 18, 
United States Code, imprisoned as provided in subsection 
(b), or both. 
‘‘(b) Imprisonment for a violation described in sub-
section (a) shall be for— 
‘‘(1) not less than 1 year and up to 5 years, in 
the case of an employee of the Social Security Ad-
ministration who has fraudulently sold or trans-
ferred not more than 50 social security account 
numbers or social security cards, 
‘‘(2) not less than 5 years and up to 10 years, 
in the case of an employee of the Social Security Ad-
ministration who has fraudulently sold or trans-
ferred more than 50, but not more than 100, social 
security account numbers or social security cards, or 
‘‘(3) not less than 10 years and up to 20 years, 
in the case of an employee of the Social Security Ad-
ministration who has fraudulently sold or trans-
ferred more than 100 social security account num-
bers or social security cards. 
‘‘(c) For purposes of this section— 
‘‘(1) The term ‘social security employee’ means 
any State employee of a State disability determina-
tion service, any officer, employee, or contractor of 
the Social Security Administration, any employee of 
such a contractor, or any volunteer providing serv-
ices or assistance in any facility of the Social Secu-
rity Administration. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘social security account number’ 
means a social security account number assigned by 
the Commissioner of Social Security under section 
205(c)(2)(B) or another number that has not been 
so assigned but is purported to have been so as-
signed. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘social security card’ means a 
card issued by the Commissioner of Social Security 
under section 205(c)(2)(G), another card which has 
not been so issued but is purported to have been so 
issued, and banknote paper of the type described in 
section 205(c)(2)(G) prepared for the entry of social 
security account numbers, whether fully completed 
or not.