Asset Search and Verification℠

Verify assets and eligibility with confidence

Asset Search and Verification℠ helps government agencies validate applicant assets in real time by locating financial accounts and confirming balances and status.

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Insight to empower eligibility determinations

Asset Search and Verification℠ delivers real-time asset visibility during eligibility and benefits determination. By locating accounts and validating balances and status across participating financial institutions, it helps agencies reduce fraud, prevent improper payments, and make faster, more accurate decisions when they matter most.

What Asset Search and Verification℠ helps you do

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Determine program eligibility

Locate and verify financial accounts and balances to determine eligibility for government assistance programs, helping ensure benefits are issued to qualified applicants.

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Identify undisclosed assets

Uncover accounts that may not be self-reported by applicants by searching across participating institutions, helping to support more accurate eligibility and fraud prevention.

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Reduce improper payments

Validate assets and balances in real time to help prevent overpayments and fraudulent benefit disbursements before funds are issued.

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Improve operational efficiency

Replace manual asset verification methods with a single real-time inquiry, reducing process time and administrative burden for agencies and financial institutions.

Experience the Asset Search and Verification℠ benefits

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Faster eligibility decisions

Immediate access to verified account data accelerates eligibility determinations and helps deliver benefits to qualified applicants more quickly.

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Operational efficiency at scale

A single inquiry replaces manual requests and follow-ups, reducing backlogs and administrative workload for agencies and financial institutions.

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Broad financial coverage

Leverages bank-contributed data across millions of accounts nationwide to deliver reliable, comprehensive asset verification.

Asset Search and Verification℠ in action

Access up to 60 months of account status and balance history across millions of accounts nationwide.

How it works

Asset Search and Verification works by responding to government eligibility inquiries on behalf of financial institutions. A request locates financial accounts, verifies status and balances, and returns results to support eligibility decisions.
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Eligibility inquiry is submitted

A government agency submits an electronic asset verification request for an applicant as part of an eligibility or review process.

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Accounts are located

Certos℠ searches the network to identify financial accounts associated with the applicant.

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Assets are verified

Account status and balance information are verified and returned in a secure, real-time response.

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Make an informed decision

The agency uses the response to make informed eligibility, payment, or recertification decisions.

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Comprehensive asset verification in one inquiry

Built for government eligibility programs

Asset Search and Verification℠ combines an account locator service, status verification, and balance confirmation into a single, secure solution. Powered by bank-contributed data, it helps government agencies improve efficiency and confidently determine eligibility across critical assistance programs.

The Certos℠ advantage

The Certos℠  network brings together decades of shared intelligence and advanced analytics to provide a comprehensive portfolio of identity, account, and payment risk solutions, offering deeper insights than any institution can achieve alone.

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Trust at scale

We unite financial institutions through decades of unmatched data, creating a trusted network that grows stronger with every connection.

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Innovative solutions

With advanced analytics and detection technology informed by activity from contributing institutions, we provide innovative solutions that provide deeper insights than any single institution can achieve alone, turning network-shared intelligence into shared assurance.

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Real-time intelligence

Our solutions distill complex data into clear, timely insights. As new data enters the network and threats evolve, we continually advance and refine our solutions, strengthening protection and confidence.

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