IDENTITY THEFT - PERSONAL INFO TRAINING

hrmania

1. Has anyone heard of Identity theft protection being offered as a payroll-deducted benefit to employees? For a "premium", the employee receives restoration services - the company works through calling the credit card companies, banks etc - employee doesn't have to do that.

2. What about pre-paid legal services also?

3. Is there a firm that offers training to employees concerning protection of personal data
used by the company?

Thanks for any info you might share!

NeedCoffee

We offer 1 & 2 to our employees. From what I know, its really a waste of money until you need it, but the premiums are generally pretty low - ours cost about $15 semi-monthly for each product.

3. The Gallup organization does a great program called PACE that's geared toward auto dealerships - we trained everyone on it because it not only deals with personal data collection/protection/etc, but with Reg Z, Fair Credit Reporting, and others. Their website is [url]www.pacecompliance.com[/url] - they may have non-dealership products as well!

NaeNae55

Our parent company offers pre-paid legal services so we do too. The cost is $8.25 twice a month (100% paid by employee). The service is also supposed to help you deal with identity theft, but I have not seen it used so don't know how well it works.

Good luck!

Nae

joannie

Have used PPL on both sides of the coin. EE's think they are getting a good benefit, but from a personal standpoint, I have not been happy with service provided. This may not happen in larger popluation areas, but the problem I have run in to is the law firm you are referred to by PPL generally will not take the case due to a previous relationship with the other party.

Cheryl S SPHR

We considered identity theft coverage for our EE's but decided against it.

We are a bank and have had good luck using our state Attorney General's office for training. Just last week the AG himself did a presentation to our staff. One of the benefits of living in South Dakota! Perhaps your AG's office has someone who can do some training from their consumer protection area.

Nevada HR

We use Pre-Paid Legal Service, which offers ID Theft training and restoration. They contact you via email when there is an inquiry on your credit report. So far, I think everyone is happy with the service...they'll help with your will, review contracts, etc. Pretty reasonably priced, too.