Announcement of Consent and Fee-Based Social Security Number Verification System (CBSV) by the Social Security Administration (SSA)

Enrollment Period Extended until June 30, 2008

SSA is pleased to announce that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved SSA’s new consent and fee-based SSN verification service-CBSV (OMB # 0960-0760). The CBSV service will verify a name and Social Security Number (SSN) combination as being correct (or incorrect) for any business or other entity (i.e., User) that has registered to use the service and has obtained the written consent of the number holder. The service requires the User to enroll during the Open Enrollment period, which closes on June 30, 2008, and pay a $5000 enrollment fee and then a transaction fee per SSN verification. The estimated transaction fee is $0.56 per SSN submitted. Before the end of the enrollment period, SSA will contact the enrollees to complete the User Agreement process. SSA plans to have the system completed and into production during the month of October 2008. Additional documents related to CBSV can be viewed by selecting the following links:

• CBSV Enrollment Information (pdf)
• CBSV User Agreement (pdf)
• User guide (pdf)

If you have any questions about this new service that have not been answered by the material provided in the links above, please email your question and your company’s name, address, telephone number, email address and name of a contact person to SSA.CBSV@ssa.gov.

The CBSV consent and fee-based, third party verification service should not be confused with the Social Security Number Verification Service (SSNVS) which SSA provides to employers and their agents for wage and tax reporting for hired employees. The results obtained from CBSV do not confirm or authenticate "proof of identity". In addition, CBSV does not verify employment eligibility, nor does it interface with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) verification system, and it will not satisfy DHS's I- requirements.