“When Maulit Shelat heard about the Bush administration’s plan to pump up the economy by sending out stimulus checks, he sat down with his wife and drew up a list of priorities. But Shelat is married to a foreigner who hasn’t completed the often years-long process that would let her apply for a Social Security number. Because they filed jointly, her not having that number makes him ineligible for the rebate checks that started going out last week. He is among an estimated hundreds of thousands of taxpayers — from legal immigrants to soldiers based abroad — who won’t be getting a share of the stimulus package because of a provision aimed at preventing illegal immigrants from getting rebates.” [editor’s note: Did anyone not know this was a scam to sniff out “illegals?” - SAT](05/12/08)