This is to advise you that American Benefit Life Insurance Company may obtain one or more consumer reports with respect to establishing your eligibility for employment, appointment, promotion, reassignment, and/or retention as an employee,
agent and/or representative of ABL, or one or more of its affiliates.
If requested, the report may be obtained from the investigative consumer-reporting agency named below or another
investigative consumer-reporting agency:
If a consumer report is obtained and you reside in a state with a legal requirement to provide a free
copy of the consumer report upon request, we will automatically instruct the consumer reporting
agency to send you a copy of the report at no charge.
The report may contain information regarding your character, general reputation, personal
characteristics and mode of living. The nature and scope of the report is: financial and credit history,
criminal records search, licensing and disciplinary action history, and employment history verification.
Notice Regarding Credit Freezes: ABL may require an inquiry into your personal credit history as part of the screening process.
If you have exercised your right to freeze your credit profile/report with any of the 3 credit bureaus, ABL asks that you please contact the applicable bureaus to temporarily remove the freeze for a period of no less than 10 days from the date of the application.
Failure to remove the freeze may delay, or ultimately eliminate you from, the onboarding process.
For California Resident Agents Only
Pursuant to the California Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act, ABL is required to provide you with the summary of provisions listed below.
California Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act Summary of the Provisions of Section 1786.22
(a) An investigative consumer reporting agency shall supply files and information required under
Section 1786.10 during normal business hours and on reasonable notice.
(b) Files maintained on a consumer shall be made available for the consumer's visual inspection,
as follows:
- In person, if he appears in person and furnishes proper identification. A copy of his file shall also be available to the consumer for a fee not to exceed the actual costs of duplication services provided.
- By certified mail, if he makes a written request, with proper identification, for copies to be sent to a specified addressee. Investigative consumer reporting agencies complying with requests for certified mailings under this section shall not be liable for disclosures to third parties caused by mishandling of mail after such mailings leave the investigative consumer reporting agencies.
- A summary of all information contained in files on a consumer and required to be provided by Section 1786.10 shall be provided by telephone, if the consumer has made a written request, with proper identification for telephone disclosure, and the toll charge, if any, for the telephone call is prepaid by or charged directly to the consumer.
(c) The term "proper identification" as used in subdivision (b) shall mean that information generally
deemed sufficient to identify a person. Such information includes documents such as a valid
driver's license, social security account number, military identification card, and credit cards.Only if
the consumer is unable to reasonably identify himself with the information described above, may an
investigative consumer-reporting agency require additional information concerning the consumer's
employment and personal or family history in order to verify his identity.
(d) The investigative consumer reporting agency shall provide trained personnel to explain to the
consumer any information furnished him pursuant to Section 1786.10.
(e) The investigative consumer reporting agency shall provide a written explanation of any coded
information contained in files maintained on a consumer. This written explanation shall be
distributed whenever a file is provided to a consumer for visual inspection as required under Section
1786.22.
(f) The consumer shall be permitted to be accompanied by one other person of his choosing, who
shall furnish reasonable identification. An investigative consumer reporting agency may require the
consumer to furnish a written statement granting permission to the consumer reporting agency to
discuss the consumer's file in such person?s presence.