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Now Included in Your Selerix Service

Automated Income & Employment Verification

The Work Number® from Equifax helps reduce your HR team’s workload and helps your employees move faster through life’s big moments — at no cost to you.

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How It Works

Employees/Consumers rely on their employer to provide verifications that support life’s big moments — buying a home, financing a car, applying for credit, or requesting government assistance. Handling those requests manually takes time away from strategic work and can put your organization and your employees’ data at greater risk.

The Work Number® automates the process: credentialed verifiers get the income and employment data they need directly from Equifax, using the payroll data already in your Selerix platform — no manual involvement from your team required.

Automatic Verification
Buying A Home
Financing A Car
Applying for Credit
Requesting Government Assistance

What This Means for You

01
Automated, not manual
Forget the paperwork — verification requests are answered automatically, lessening your team’s manual workload.
02
Lower risk
Responding to verification requests directly can expose your organization to fraud or error. Automation removes your team from that transaction.
03
No cost, no setup.
The service runs on data already in Selerix. You pay nothing — verifiers pay per request — and there’s nothing new to implement.
04
Faster outcomes for employees.
Quicker, more informed decisions from lenders and agencies can improve your employees’ access to the credit, housing, and benefits they’re seeking.

Governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act

The Work Number is governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which requires verifiers to have a permissible purpose before obtaining employment or income data — and, for income requests, an auditable record of the employee’s consent. Employees can see who has requested their information and can dispute anything that looks incorrect.

Privacy & Security

The Work Number uses layered security standards to help protect employee information, including data encryption, physical security controls, and identity verification for every user. Verification requests are typically initiated by the employee, usually at the time of application, and are only accepted from credentialed verifiers — more than 42,000 verifier organizations are credentialed on the network, and every transaction is subject to planned and random audits.

By the Numbers
5 M+ employer contributors power the nation’s largest verification network
42000 + credentialed verifier organizations rely on The Work Number when employees seek loans and aid
52 M In 2024, The Work Number helped nearly 52 million people benefit from instant verifications outside of regular business hours*
40 % Auto loan applicants are 40% more likely to be funded, and mortgage applicants 34% more likely to be funded, when verified through The Work Number**
* Equifax data, 2024. ** Equifax Data Studies, 2022 and Dec. 2018–Dec. 2019. Individual results may vary.

What Do I Need to Do?

Nothing. The Work Number will be added to your Selerix service automatically at no cost to your organization. There’s no setup, no new workflow, and nothing for your team to configure.

If you’d prefer not to participate at this time, you can let us know by August 10th, 2026 using this brief form:

Copyright © 2026 Equifax Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Work Number® is a registered trademark of Equifax Workforce Solutions LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equifax Inc.

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