Dear Bureaupat,

If a prospective employer wants to verify my employment records with the federal government, who should I refer them to?

Dear Verified,

The first person to whom your future employer can reach out to verify your current past federal employment is you. You need only to provide them a copy of your latest SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action.

If you're currently a Federal employee, contact your Human Resources Office. If you're no longer working for the government, write to:

National Personnel Records Center
Civilian Personnel Records
111 Winnebago Street
St. Louis, MO 63118-4126
FAX: 314-801-9270

If needed, you can provide access to your Official Personnel Folder to anyone you designate, but without your explicit permission there are a limited number of special situations where others can see information from your personnel records. These situations are described in routine uses under the Privacy Act System of Records Notice covering the Official Personnel Folder.

For more information on the Privacy Act and the Office of Personnel Management's records systems under the Act, go to http://www.opm.gov/feddata/html/privacy.asp. For more information on contacting the National Personnel Records Center, go to http://www.nara.gov/regional/cpr.html.

Yours in Gov,

Bureaupat

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