Employment and Income Verifications
Message to Verifiers
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga uses The Work Number® to provide automated employment and income verifications. The Work Number reduces our risk of liability from providing erroneous or unauthorized information, and our employees receive the benefit of rapid verification completion, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You the verifier benefit by receiving immediate access to information that is convenient, accurate and secure. Please follow the instructions below to attain the information you need.
Commercial Verifications
(Mortgage loan, auto finance, credit card, job offer, apartment lease, etc.)
1-800-367-5690
Employer Code: 17617 – a five-digit code used to identify UTC employees.
Social Services Verifications
(Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, subsidized housing, etc.)
1-800-660-3399
Employer Code: 17617 – a five-digit code used to identify UTC employees.
The Work Number – Automated Income and Employment Verifications
- The Work Number ensures that verifications are completed in the most secure and streamlined manner possible — 24 hours a day/7 days a week.
- The Work Number protects sensitive employee information by credentialing all Verifiers prior to system use, authenticating the Verifier at login, requiring the Verifier to have Consumer Consent and a valid Permissible Purpose for requesting the data, and monitoring and auditing Verifier activity to ensure compliance with the above safeguards.
- The Work Number complies with The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which ensures that employees can see who is requesting their data and provides a mechanism to dispute data that they believe to be inaccurate.
- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Employer Code: 17617 – a five-digit code used to identify UTC employees.
Frequently Asked Questions:
- What is The Work Number?
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The Work Number, a service of Equifax Workforce Solutions, is an automated service for employment and income verifications that allows employees to provide proof of employment or income instantly. More than 200,000 credentialed verifiers (leading mortgage companies, pre-employment screeners, banks, social service agencies and others) access The Work Number to retrieve this critical decisioning information — direct from employer payroll feeds — rapidly and securely.
- Is the information secure?
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The commitment to information security at Equifax is unparalleled. They are SSAE16, FISMA NIST 800-53 and ISO 27001 certified. Equifax employs risk based authentication and data encryption technologies and houses The Work Number data in an isolated network.
- Who is considered a verifier?
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Who is considered a verifier? A verifier can be any lending institution, property manager or other business with a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)-compliant permissible purpose for requesting employment or income information. All verifiers are screened and credentialed before receiving system access, and authenticated at each login.
- Does a verification from The Work Number take longer?
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No. If the information is on the database, it is delivered instantly and does not require a callback or other response from the employer.
- What is a Commercial verification?
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Standard employment and income verifications (as part of the approval process for mortgage loans, auto financing, credit cards, job offers, apartment rentals, etc.) are commonly referred to as commercial verifications.
- What is a Social Services verification?
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Typical social services verifications include TANF, SNAP, Public Housing, Medicaid, Child Support, WIC, Welfare-to-Work Programs, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and others.
- Do I need anything special to obtain an income verification?
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The Work Number requires that verifiers have the documented consent of the employee-consumer to access income information. Consent is generally established via a signed acknowledgement at the point of application for a loan or service. And, as with all verifications via The Work Number, you will need to state an FCRA-compliant permissible purpose prior to accessing the data.
- What Employer Code do I Use?
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga employer code is 17617. This five-digit code is used to identify each organization in The Work Number database. Credentialed verifiers can also search for employer codes by name.
Need help? The Work Number Client Service Center is available Monday – Friday; 7am – 8pm (CT) at 800-367-5690 For TTY–hearing impaired call 800.424.0253.