SSN Validation vs. SSN Trace - Differences
SSN Validation - Verified directly with the Office of Social Security Administration.
- Verifies that the SSN is valid.
- Verifies that the SSN provided by your applicant is the SSN that has been issued by the Social Security Administration.
- Helps eliminate the possibility of your organization hiring a worker that is not legally authorized to work in the United States.
- Helps eliminate the possibility of your organization hiring someone using a SSN from a deceased person or a bogus SSN created by felons.
- This is the most reliable SSN validation tool available in the United States.
SSN Trace - Primarily based on credit headers and other public sources of information. Due to the number of forged and misused Social Security Numbers the SSN Trace may not be enough to determine that the SSN has been issued to the applicant legally by the Social Security Administration.
- Determines the jurisdictions to include with your criminal record searches.
- Determines any names that have been used or associated with the SSN. You may have a female applicant who may have been married or used another last name. You would want to include that additional last name as an alias name. You may have a male applicant who states that his name is Jim but the SSN trace may reveal that legally his name is James, Jimmy or some other variation or perhaps Jim is his middle name.
- Investigate an SSN that has been used by someone else.
- Verifies that your applicant has used the SSN.
- Verifies the year and state issued for the SSN.
