How to Enroll

CBSV Enrollment Information and Application

SSA has reopened enrollment for its CBSV service. SSA is now accepting new applications from private businesses and government agencies to use CBSV. An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is required to enroll and become a CBSV user.

General Information

CBSV is a fee-based Social Security Number (SSN) verification service that will permit private businesses and Federal, State and Local government agencies to verify an individual’s SSN once a valid signed consent form is obtained from the SSN holder. To use CBSV you must pay a one-time non-refundable enrollment fee ($5,000) and a transaction fee for each SSN verification request. The transaction fee per verification request is presently $0.56 and must be paid in advance. However, effective October 1, 2009, the fee will increase to $5.00 per verification request.

Periodically, SSA will recalculate the costs it incurs in providing the CBSV service and will adjust the transaction fee charged as needed. Subscribers will be notified in writing of any change in the transaction fee. SSA is not funded to provide CBSV and charges these fees to recoup its costs. SSA makes no profit in delivering the CBSV service.

Steps to Enroll

1. Complete the CBSV Enrollment Application and return it to us by email to ssa.cbsv@ssa.gov.



2. Enclose your check payable to the Social Security Administration in the amount of $5,000, or a completed Credit Card Payment Form, and mail it with the completed CBSV Enrollment Application to:
   
   Social Security Administration
   ATTN: CBSV
   6401 Security Boulevard
   P.O. Box 17042
   Baltimore, MD 21235



3. Upon receipt of your enrollment application and the $5,000 enrollment fee, SSA will initiate the formal agreement process by which SSA and you will execute a User Agreement memorializing your participation in the CBSV process.

SSA will not refund the $5,000 enrollment fee. Your submission of the CBSV application form, along with the enrollment fee, constitutes your acknowledgement and agreement that the enrollment fee is non-refundable.

View User Model Agreement
View CBSV User Guide