penalty for furnishing false information to obtain social security account number for deceptive practices involving social security account numbers

penalty for furnishing false information to obtain social security account number for deceptive practices involving social security account numbers Sec. 130. (a) Section 208 of the Social Security Act is amended by adding “or” after the semicolon at the end of subsection (e), and by inserting after subsection (e) the following new subsections: “(f) willfully, knowingly, and with intent to deceive the Secretary as to his true identity (or the true identity of any other person) furnishes or causes to be furnished false information to the Secretary with respect to any information required by the Secretary in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the records provided for in section 205(c) (2); or 86 Stat. 1360 “(g) for the purpose of causing an increase in any payment authorized under this title (or any other program financed in whole or in part from Federal funds), or for the purpose of causing a payment under this title (or any such other program) to be made when no payment is authorized thereunder, or for the purpose of obtaining (for himself or any other person) any payment or any other benefit to which he (or such other person) is not entitled— “(1) willfully, knowingly, and with intent to deceive, uses a social security account number, assigned by the Secretary (in the exercise of his authority under section 205(c) (2) to establish and maintain records) on the basis of false information furnished to the Secretary by him or by any other person; or “(2) with intent to deceive, falsely represents a number to be the social security account number assigned by the Secretary to him or to another person, when in fact such number is not the social security account number assigned by the Secretary to him or to such other person;”. (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to information furnished to the Secretary after the date of the enactment of this Act.