Dependent Care Spending Accounts

[Guest myvettee]

Employee states that her day care provider will not disclose her social security number for submission of daycare expenses for 1999.

Employee has made every attempt to get the social security number from her provider. Evidently, employee has run out of resources. A letter was written and several phone calls (with no return calls) have been made. What option does my employee have. Please reply.

[GBurns]

If the provider is licensed, then the SS# is available from the licensing authority. IF not licensed, then as a parent I would be worrying about the quality of care. If the quality of care is good, then your employee has to decide if it is good enough to cause the giving up of the tax reduction.There is no way I have seen to force a private individual to give up their SS#, without compromising the child. Tell your employee to look on the back of the returned check to see if the provided cashed the payment check using a Driver License, if so, the Div of Driver License or Dept of Motor Vehicle may provide the info.