Third party requesters must submit a valid consent document with Numident record requests
in accordance with the consent and query procedures in
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GN 03305.001 Disclosure with Consent
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We provide information about who may consent in GN 03305.005. If the consent document does not meet our requirements, return it to the requester
with a written explanation of why we cannot honor the request. We can accept a new
consent document from the same requester once the consent document satisfies all of
our requirements. Once it satisfies all requirements, send the request, together with
the fee, to the OEIO FOIA Workgroup at the address listed above.
A third party may ask an individual to obtain a Numident to verify their SSN. The
third party may also seek valuable personal information contained in the Numident
record. While the number holder (NH) is entitled to their own Numident record, they
may be unwittingly disclosing more information than is necessary to verify their SSN.
Disclosing Numident information unnecessarily to third parties greatly increases the
NH's vulnerability to identity theft and SSN fraud. In addition, persons can easily
duplicate or alter Numident records. FO employees should advise the NH that the Numident
record may contain sensitive information. By providing the full extract (Internal
Query available on Person Information) to the third party, NHs may be inadvertently
releasing more information than required to satisfy a third party request.