The Work Number, in cooperation with your employer, provides a secure and convenient way to authorize third-party verifiers (like lenders, landlords, social service agencies, and prospective employers) to verify your employment and / or income.

Instructions
Decide what information you want a verifier to receive as well as the type of verifier you are dealing with, and then click the corresponding GO button.

Verification Needed	Typical Reasons	Select
I'm applying for social services (public aid), and my caseworker needs to verify my employment and income to make sure I'm eligible.	Qualifying for social service aid like TANF, Food Stamps, Medicaid, or Social Security
I want someone, other than a government social service agency, to verify my employment and income.	Loans Apartment Rentals Credit Financial Transactions
I want my employment verified, but I do not want to authorize verification of my income.	Looking for a new job. Some types loans or credit.

Benefits of This Service

• Easier loan approvals
• Improved Confidentiality
  Your HR department is no longer filling your requests for employment or income verification.
• Much Faster
  Many employers can take a week or more to fill a request for a verification of employment or income. The Work Number can reduce this to minutes.
• Improved Security
  You are in control of authorizing the verification of your own data.
• Improved Accuracy
  The Work Number does not change the data that your employer provides, and it eliminates the chance of the human error.

Security
When you login to your personal account with The Work Number, you enter a secure area which protects your data using SSL encryption, in addition to secure identifying data like usernames and passwords.

Encryption scrambles the information moving between two computers. The only parties who can see the data in a readable format are the sender and intended receiver.

Secure Socket Layers, or SSL, is an encryption standard that was developed by Netscape Corporation and is based on a public key/private key encryption scheme. SSL is a widely used standard on the Internet today and facilitates secure commerce in almost every industry.