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Comment by jf

3 years ago

My understanding is that employers provide this data in exchange for getting access to the database

I’m not sure that’s quite correct. My company doesn’t directly provide this information at all, for example: We use ADP to run payroll, and they’re the ones who have provided my data.

This is (I think) more intended as a replacement for the current process a, say, mortgage underwriter uses to verify employment: (1) send email to a company-wide email account (info@company.com, in our case…) saying “please verify person X is employed as a Y making $Z as soon as possible” (2) hope email is received, (3) hope email is from the borrowers actual employer.

  • Can't they just ask for a pay stub or a letter from the employer? That's how they do it in France ( a signed and stamped "certificate" from the employer you've worked there since X, last 3 pay stubs and last two year's last ones(which have a recap for the whole year) and it seems to work fine.