Many Amish people do not have Social Security numbers because their religion opposes commercial or government insurance, including Social Security.
For non-Amish… I guess if you’re living in a commune somewhere maybe you could avoid owing any taxes even without claiming kids. But would you really give up the refundable child tax credit?
I was just thinking of a teen I heard about. Her parents were in a cult and she didn’t even have a birth certificate. I don’t think the cult people cared much about taxes. They simply didn’t pay.
A family member got the kid out but she didn’t have any paperwork to be able to work or anything. Not sure what happened. But the aunt was in her corner.
I have never had a problem with the Amish in my neighbourhood exempting themselves from Canadian taxation and programs. About the only public service they avail themselves of is the roads they drive their horse and buggies on. I can overlook that as they do pay various sales taxes on purchases. The Amish lad that bought my farm had to pay the full transfer tax on my property which will probably cover any government provided benefits for the rest of his life.
I’m certainly not complaining, just providing data.
Federal documents allege she collected monthly retirement payments for 25 years after her mother died.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 9, 2025 at 6:11PM
Investigators claim Mavious Redmond of Austin, Minn., didn’t notify the Social Security Administration when her mother died. (Nam Y. Huh/The Associated Press)
A 54-year-old woman faces federal fraud charges after allegedly embezzling $360,000 in Social Security payments over 25 years by pretending to be her dead mother.
Mavious Redmond of Austin, Minn., faces three counts of wire fraud, one count of theft of government funds and one of aggravated identity theft for pretending to be her mother since the older woman died in January 1999.
Investigators claim Redmond didn’t notify the Social Security Administration after her mother died. According to court documents, at one point Redmond asked Social Security officials questions about how to terminate her mother’s benefits in the event she died.
Court records say Redmond continued accessing money in her mother’s accounts after she died, at times allegedly impersonating her mother over the years to continue drawing monthly retirement payments. In November 2023, she phoned the Social Security office trying to switch her mother’s address to her home in Austin.
Redmond came under suspicion in June 2024 after she allegedly twice visited the Social Security Administration office in Austin while impersonating her mother and trying to get a new Social Security card for her. According to court documents, Redmond provided an expired insurance card, birth certificate and a letter from Social Security officials addressed to her mother.
Redmond faces an arraignment hearing in March.
