The Work Number® - Verifiers Resources

Commercial Verification

Examples: mortgage loan, auto finance, credit card, job offer, apartment lease, etc

Access Options

• www.theworknumber.com
• 1-800-367-5690

Information Required

• Faculty & Staff Employer Code 17853
• Graduate Assistant and Student Employee Employer Code 18051

Social Services Verification

Examples: Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, subsidized housing, etc.

Access Options

• www.theworknumber.com
• 1-800-660-3399

Information Required

• Faculty & Staff Employer Code 17853
• Graduate Assistant and Student Employee Employer Code 18051

1. What is The Work Number®?
   The Work Number®, is an automated service for employment and income verification 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 decision making information—direct from employer payroll feeds— rapidly and securely.
2. Is the information secure?
   The Work Number® is SSAE16, FISMA NIST 800-53 and ISO 27001 certified. The Work Number® employs risk based authentication and data encryption technologies and house The Work Number® data in an isolated network.
3. 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.
4. Does a verification from The Work Number® take longer?
   No. If the information is on the database, it is delivered instantly and does not require a callback or other response from the employer.
5. What is a Commercial verification?
   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.
6. What is a Social Services verification?
   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.
7. Do I need anything special to obtain an income verification?
   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.
8. What Employer Code do I Use?
   The University of Northern Iowa’s faculty and staff employer code is: 17853. The graduate assistants and student employee code is: 18051. 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.
9. Who do I contact for additional questions?
   If you have questions about this system, please call The Work Number® client service team at 800-996-7566.

As a local business partner, if you are not established as a verifier within The Work Number and have limited need to verify UNI employment, please contact the appropriate email address and ask for support.

Faculty and Staff Verifiers
fac-staff-employment-verification@uni.edu

Graduate Assistants and Student Employees Verifiers
student-employment-verification@uni.edu