The real birth certificate scandal: I just had to spend $120 getting copies

[hedgehog]

of birth certificates and my marriage certificate in order to prove to my husband's employer that yes, we are married and yes, the four children covered by his health insurance do in fact exist.

There is a small industry out there of companies telling employers the can cut insurance costs by spotting all their employees engaged in fraud.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Indiana seems to be listening to them as well

As a state employee, we had to go through that exercise earlier this year. :eyes:

[upi402]

2. We went through BC hell too

The State Dept. and Homeland Security are not in sync with their own rules. And that got expensive, and time consuming, to rectify ...

I don't have my original BC. My wife doesn't either.
Grats to Obama. I hope he hits 'REDO' on the BushCo Homeland Security immigration requirements and fees for the next folks.

[kestrel91316]

3. You think that's hard. Try getting NON-certified copies for genealogical

research purposes. You would think they were state secrets.

And it's still impossible to get a legal copy of my great-grandmother's OPENLY PUBLICIZED adoption records from a county in Kansas. And she was adopted in the 1880's. (My mom's cousin won't disclose how she got her bootleg copy, lol)

[sharp_stick]

4. Can you claim it?

That's what I did during the same idiocy at my company and they paid it.

The idea was that they "needed" this information they could bloody well pay for it.

[rwork]

5. I let my drivers license expire by 3 months.

They had to see my real BC to renew. Fortunately I got it last summer when we were applying for passports.

On one plus note my DL only cost me $1 because I went over 65.

[Sherman A1]

6. In Missouri you can't renew your DL without a

certified copy of your Birth Certificate, but in order to obtain that from the county clerk's office, you need your Driver's License (plus $15.00) it's sort of a circle of documents in my opinion.

[SheilaT]

7. You had to show a birth certificate

to renew your driver's license?!? What state are you in, so I'm sure not to move there.

I haven't had to offer such "proof" of my existence since the very first time I got a DL, although that was long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, compared to the BS peoople have to endure these days.

Which reminds me, I do need to renew my passport.

[snooper2]

8. Actually it's a good thing

Had to do it at my work last year...

A company we buy a lot of equipment from did it last year as well and they found a suprising number of fraud cases...

girlfriends getting coverage, cousins, etc,.