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The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced that after a four year halt, it will resume sending Social Security “no-match” letters to employers. (SSA has continued to send letters to employees’ home addresses if the name and/or social security number on an employer’s W-2 form does not match the information on SSA’s database.) This new round of no-match letters, formally referred to as “Decentralized Correspondence” (DECOR), informs employers that the information on an employee’s 2010 W-2 wage and tax statement does not match the name and/or Social Security number on file with the SSA, or lacks a SSN entirely. To learn more about this development and its implications for employers, please continue reading at Littler's Washington D.C. Employment Law Update.