National Protect Your Identity Week

October 18, 2011

This week is National Protect Your Identity Week (PYIW), October 16^th to October 22^nd, 2011, so consider promoting this to your workforce.  Over 8 million consumers were victims of identity theft in 2010, so the odds are that your employees may have been a casualty of that statistic.  An employee that is dealing with identity theft is feeling financially stressed and distracted, and may be taking time during the workday to try to deal with the situation – leading to lost productivity.  Even worse, if the employee is a victim of medical identity theft, your group health plan could be impacted by false insurance bills from their imposter. Continue reading “National Protect Your Identity Week”