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November 22, 2014
To: Suellen Coleman,
Department of Graduate Education & Info Studies
Department of Graduate Education & Info Studies
Fm: Olga M. Lazin-Andrei, Visiting Scholar
Application for “UCLA Visiting Scholar Working Title”
Terms of service, in my case:
Appointment as Visiting Scholar in the Department of
Graduate Education and Information Studies.
Graduate Education and Information Studies.
My Qualifications for
this position include not one or more but rather all of the following:1
this position include not one or more but rather all of the following:1
A. an active external grant [or] recent history
of external award funding
of external award funding
B. internal research funding
C. publication of scholarly books, monographs,
or journal articles
or journal articles
D. scholarly presentations at professional
meetings
meetings
My current activities meet all of
the above qualifications but I emphasize
A and B because they permit ongoing activity beyond three years without
interruption, as follows:
the above qualifications but I emphasize
A and B because they permit ongoing activity beyond three years without
interruption, as follows:
A-B. My active Research Project on U.S.-Mexico Social Security Problems (faced by
Workers and Managers as well as Independent Contractors, including technical
experts and consultants) is currently funded each year (since 2003-2004) by the
California Legislature (external) and
UCOP (internal).
Workers and Managers as well as Independent Contractors, including technical
experts and consultants) is currently funded each year (since 2003-2004) by the
California Legislature (external) and
UCOP (internal).
My Project (now in year 12 and
counting) has brought into UCLA $2.16 Million (avg. $187,000 yearly, except 2003,
$100,000).
counting) has brought into UCLA $2.16 Million (avg. $187,000 yearly, except 2003,
$100,000).
We seek to provide the research needed by lawmakers to “unfreeze” the
nearly $300 Billion that we have
uncovered as being owed to U.S. and Mexican persons living in the USA and/or Mexico,
whose overpayment of taxes to the Social Security Administration (see
Double Taxation below) and benefits due
them are frozen by the U.S. Treasury in Washington, D.C, because they are held
as “Scrambled Social Security Account Numbers.”[1] These accounts have accumulated
since 1937-- mostly since the 1960s, and by U.S. law are recoverable if the
persons can help unscramble their Social Security number (be it legal or
illegal), unify their Social Security Numbers (if they worked under more than
one number), and can later prove U.S. legal residency or permission to work.
nearly $300 Billion that we have
uncovered as being owed to U.S. and Mexican persons living in the USA and/or Mexico,
whose overpayment of taxes to the Social Security Administration (see
Double Taxation below) and benefits due
them are frozen by the U.S. Treasury in Washington, D.C, because they are held
as “Scrambled Social Security Account Numbers.”[1] These accounts have accumulated
since 1937-- mostly since the 1960s, and by U.S. law are recoverable if the
persons can help unscramble their Social Security number (be it legal or
illegal), unify their Social Security Numbers (if they worked under more than
one number), and can later prove U.S. legal residency or permission to work.
This Project also involves my research on Cross-Border-Double Taxation
of U.S./Mexican Workers and Managers as well as Independent Contractors who
have paid double their yearly taxes on the same income in both countries but
are ineligible to recover the share overpaid until they are able to show legal
residence or permission to work in the USA. If they cannot show U.S. legal status
within three years after filing their tax returns, those funds are permanently
lost.
of U.S./Mexican Workers and Managers as well as Independent Contractors who
have paid double their yearly taxes on the same income in both countries but
are ineligible to recover the share overpaid until they are able to show legal
residence or permission to work in the USA. If they cannot show U.S. legal status
within three years after filing their tax returns, those funds are permanently
lost.
For Social Security, my Team (Dr Olga Lazin-Andrei) and I face four
ongoing tasks:
ongoing tasks:
(1) Calculate in an ongoing
manner the total changing amount of Mexican individual Social Security funds (which
we adjust for inflation) frozen in the U.S. Treasury;
manner the total changing amount of Mexican individual Social Security funds (which
we adjust for inflation) frozen in the U.S. Treasury;
(2) Categorize and analyze the frequently changing
Social Security laws and regulations in both countries;
Social Security laws and regulations in both countries;
(3) Analyze the processes
necessary to Combine Social Security Earnings (“Totalize) Individual Accounts) for persons working in both countries,
with benefits paid proportionate to amount of “taxes” paid into the Social
Security Administration in each country. Totalization will end the problem
faced by persons who can never earn retirement benefits because they do not
work in either country long enough to benefit from either System. The USA has
Totalization Agreements with all of its major trading partners (24 countries),
but not with Mexico—the most important economic partner for the USA and
California.
necessary to Combine Social Security Earnings (“Totalize) Individual Accounts) for persons working in both countries,
with benefits paid proportionate to amount of “taxes” paid into the Social
Security Administration in each country. Totalization will end the problem
faced by persons who can never earn retirement benefits because they do not
work in either country long enough to benefit from either System. The USA has
Totalization Agreements with all of its major trading partners (24 countries),
but not with Mexico—the most important economic partner for the USA and
California.
(4) Develop historically consistent proposals
needed by Federal and State legislators to work out bi-national policies.
needed by Federal and State legislators to work out bi-national policies.
For Double-Taxation Laws and Regulations, my Team and I have been
developing the policies needed to advise the Treasuries of both countries,
e.g., revision of the Bi-National Double-Tax Treaty to go beyond business to include
labor.
developing the policies needed to advise the Treasuries of both countries,
e.g., revision of the Bi-National Double-Tax Treaty to go beyond business to include
labor.
For my interlocking research themes covering Social Security and
Double-Tax issues, then, if even some of the funds held in Washington, D.C.,
were to be returned to individuals in Mexico and the USA, either as benefits or
tax refunds, families and local economies would be jump started to achieve
quantum growth.
Double-Tax issues, then, if even some of the funds held in Washington, D.C.,
were to be returned to individuals in Mexico and the USA, either as benefits or
tax refunds, families and local economies would be jump started to achieve
quantum growth.
The U.S. Government maintains
a small number of its Social Security officers in U.S. Consulates throughout
Mexico, but they are swamped migrant mexicans who claim they have rights to
social security.
a small number of its Social Security officers in U.S. Consulates throughout
Mexico, but they are swamped migrant mexicans who claim they have rights to
social security.
What is needed is a corps of
attorneys and legal assistants who know the U.S. procedural system to break through
the bottlenecks as they help the great number of Mexicans assemble the
necessary U.S. forms from their own records or request replacement documents
from the USA. Also,
attorneys and legal assistants who know the U.S. procedural system to break through
the bottlenecks as they help the great number of Mexicans assemble the
necessary U.S. forms from their own records or request replacement documents
from the USA. Also,
outreach programs could be created to advise
the massive number of Mexicans who have returned to Mexico negotiate the
bureaucratic procedures needed to recover their rightful income earned in the
U.S.A.
the massive number of Mexicans who have returned to Mexico negotiate the
bureaucratic procedures needed to recover their rightful income earned in the
U.S.A.
In the meantime, I have been
proposing in Mexico that the major university law schools begin to establish
specialties for the development of research and teaching leading to the
graduation of lawyers who can help individual Mexicans recover their various
funds held by the U.S. Treasury.
proposing in Mexico that the major university law schools begin to establish
specialties for the development of research and teaching leading to the
graduation of lawyers who can help individual Mexicans recover their various
funds held by the U.S. Treasury.
U.S. Social Security officials
in Mexico would be pleased to assist in developing the basis for the training
of the corps of attorneys and legal assistants who are needed to help former
employees who worked in the USA recover these funds.
in Mexico would be pleased to assist in developing the basis for the training
of the corps of attorneys and legal assistants who are needed to help former
employees who worked in the USA recover these funds.
A new subset of specialized
Mexican attorneys is needed to help the millions of Mexican citizens in Mexico,
whose funds are frozen by ‘the U.S. Treasury, learn their right under U.S. laws
and regulations to file for and/or appeal for release of their funds. This new
type Mexican must be knowledgeable about U.S. bureaucratic procedures and able
help Mexican and U.S officials procedures needed to apply to recover their
rightful income earned in the USA. Many persons are encouraged to apply now for
refunds or benefits, but do not know how to do so.
Mexican attorneys is needed to help the millions of Mexican citizens in Mexico,
whose funds are frozen by ‘the U.S. Treasury, learn their right under U.S. laws
and regulations to file for and/or appeal for release of their funds. This new
type Mexican must be knowledgeable about U.S. bureaucratic procedures and able
help Mexican and U.S officials procedures needed to apply to recover their
rightful income earned in the USA. Many persons are encouraged to apply now for
refunds or benefits, but do not know how to do so.
.
C. My work
in publishing and disseminating new knowledge includes the following works in
process:
in publishing and disseminating new knowledge includes the following works in
process:
(i)
Random House/Penguin Mexico are
currently readying the contract to publish my Oral
Random House/Penguin Mexico are
currently readying the contract to publish my Oral
History with Porfirio Muñoz Ledo. For Mexico he served as Minister of Labor, Minister of Education, Ambassador
to the UN, Ambassador to all Europe including the USSR, President of the
Official Party (PRI), and President of the major leftist Opposition Party
(PRD).
to the UN, Ambassador to all Europe including the USSR, President of the
Official Party (PRI), and President of the major leftist Opposition Party
(PRD).
(ii)
Completion of my book entitled Mexico’s Two Green Agricultural Revolutions
for the World: Norman Borlaug’s Breakthrough in Wheat Seeds (1965) and Double
-Protein Corn Seeds (1999) and Roberto
González-Barerra’s Healthy Staple Foods for the Masses. Borlaug won the
Nobel Peace Prize of 1970 for Mexico’s breakthrough in wheat seeds, which he
arranged to ship to India and Pakistan in the mid-1960s to stave off mass
starvation. Borlaug exported his Mexican food production system to the USA, South
America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
Completion of my book entitled Mexico’s Two Green Agricultural Revolutions
for the World: Norman Borlaug’s Breakthrough in Wheat Seeds (1965) and Double
-Protein Corn Seeds (1999) and Roberto
González-Barerra’s Healthy Staple Foods for the Masses. Borlaug won the
Nobel Peace Prize of 1970 for Mexico’s breakthrough in wheat seeds, which he
arranged to ship to India and Pakistan in the mid-1960s to stave off mass
starvation. Borlaug exported his Mexican food production system to the USA, South
America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
(iii)
Completion of my oral history
volume entitled Víctor Paz-Estenssoro and
his Two Bolivian Revolutions: Nationalization (1952-1964) and Denationalization
(1985-1989). Paz was UCLA Chancellor’s Visiting Lecturer during 1977 and his
Courses and Seminars attracted professors from several universities to hear his
analyses of lessons learned from having taken over most major private
industries in the 1950s and early 1960s by reprivatizing them during his final
presidency from 1985 to 1989. He was the first major leader to argue that
“centralized power is ‘muscle-bound’ and cannot react to the unanticipated
consequences of artificially planned legislation,” and then return to the Presidency
of Bolivia and “undo his own errors of central planning.”
Completion of my oral history
volume entitled Víctor Paz-Estenssoro and
his Two Bolivian Revolutions: Nationalization (1952-1964) and Denationalization
(1985-1989). Paz was UCLA Chancellor’s Visiting Lecturer during 1977 and his
Courses and Seminars attracted professors from several universities to hear his
analyses of lessons learned from having taken over most major private
industries in the 1950s and early 1960s by reprivatizing them during his final
presidency from 1985 to 1989. He was the first major leader to argue that
“centralized power is ‘muscle-bound’ and cannot react to the unanticipated
consequences of artificially planned legislation,” and then return to the Presidency
of Bolivia and “undo his own errors of central planning.”
(iv)
I continue to edit the Journal Mexico and the World, which was
established in 1996 at UCLA with Ford Foundation funding to PROFMEX (Worldwide Consortium for Research
on Mexico). PROFMEX, officially based and hosted at UCLA from 1982 to 2002, decentralized its activities in late 2002 to other universities, e.g.,
Publications were shifted to the University of Guadalajara, where Dr Olga Lazin-Andrei
is coordinating the publication process.
I continue to edit the Journal Mexico and the World, which was
established in 1996 at UCLA with Ford Foundation funding to PROFMEX (Worldwide Consortium for Research
on Mexico). PROFMEX, officially based and hosted at UCLA from 1982 to 2002, decentralized its activities in late 2002 to other universities, e.g.,
Publications were shifted to the University of Guadalajara, where Dr Olga Lazin-Andrei
is coordinating the publication process.
(v)
Under my editorship of the
PROFMEX Book Series on Cycles and Trends in Mexican History, forty-four volumes
have appeared since 1990. The Series is the longest academic book series in Mexico-U.S.
history.
Under my editorship of the
PROFMEX Book Series on Cycles and Trends in Mexican History, forty-four volumes
have appeared since 1990. The Series is the longest academic book series in Mexico-U.S.
history.
D. My scholarly
presentations at professional meetings number over 300, which led (along with
my role
presentations at professional meetings number over 300, which led (along with
my role
in
publishing book series in Mexico) to my being
awarded the 2012 Ohtli Prize Awarded
by
publishing book series in Mexico) to my being
awarded the 2012 Ohtli Prize Awarded
by
Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations
and its Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior.
and its Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior.
Specifically,
the Prize honored my roles in organizing Scholarly Publication and Advancement of
the Prize honored my roles in organizing Scholarly Publication and Advancement of
Mexico-U.S. Research and Presentations
at International Conferences.
at International Conferences.
Qualified Mexican
academics need recognition from abroad to advance in their university systems,
academics need recognition from abroad to advance in their university systems,
and on behalf of UCLA, I propose to continue this role.
Signature
Cc: Marylin Salinger,
GSIS #2319, UCLA.
GSIS #2319, UCLA.
[1] Social Security Numbers have been
scrambled by many factors such as legal name changes (e.g. by newlyweds),
scrambled by many factors such as legal name changes (e.g. by newlyweds),
errors in transcription, wrong numbers, numbers “borrowed” from
relatives, or used by mistake or illegally, etc.
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