Equifax has been hard at work to deliver more comprehensive background verification services to meet the needs of government housing authorities and housing assistance programs. Starting in November, when you order The Work Number™, the gold standard in income and employment verifications, you also have the ability to order a separate, new criminal data verifications solution: Smart Screen™ Advanced - TenantCheck Government.

Watch this on-demand webinar to discover how this groundbreaking first step in the criminal background check process leverages incarceration and sex offender registry data networks to instantly inform eligibility determinations, allowing for faster approvals. Specifically, viewers will learn:

• The most common challenges government housing agencies face when screening housing applicants and tenants
• How the Smart Screen TenantCheck suite of solutions fundamentally changes the traditional background screening process to accelerate decision making
• How leveraging incarceration data differs and provides advantages compared to national criminal (“nat-crim") data in the background screening process
• How to leverage unique datasets and consumer identity information within consumer report outputs, where available, to make housing eligibility determinations faster