To pull a person’s report like that, they need to sign an approval form giving you permission to run their credit. At least to the best of my knowledge.
I’m not particularly comfortable giving out someone else’s SS#… let’s give the SSA a chance to do their thing and if that doesn’t work, we can try the credit report.
He needs to. Who are “they”? The credit bureau?
So you’ve given Mr. Ivens the required disclosure and obtained his consent? While he was completing the application, you migh have mentioned his lost wallet. 
If you were to pull the report under false pretenses, of course, you’d be subject to prosecution:
They refers to the person who’s report you are accessing. Poor grammar? Perhaps. Still not something you can do without the subject’s consent, as Gfactor noted.
Or at least his Ford.
Clearly your friend has a different job from my friend who works at the patent office. My friend is a patent reviewer, and he works many more than 40 hours most weeks just trying to keep up with his work load.
Or maybe he’s doing part of your friend’s workload? :rolleyes: Reviewers are assigned so many cases per week/month (whatever; he explained it to me a long time ago). They have to review them, write analyses and reports, tell applicants when something needs more evidence or whatever. I wouldn’t have N’s job on a bet. And that position requires graduate education (he has a doctorate in a science, and is neither lazy nor slow).
I work for State Government, & I have had experiences like those filmyak describes, and like those tygerbryght suggests.
It varies between jobs, Departments, Administrations, & even if you get a new Departmental Commissioner.
Sometimes buried under insane amounts of work, sometimes idle.
Social Service gigs tend towards the “overworked” end of things.
Hot off the AP wire:
Yeah, I contacted several press outlets and they all ignored me. Apparently it’s only a story once the wallet is found.
Hey, they won’t help me find the guy? They can kiss my ass when they come to me for quotes once (if) the wallet makes it back to Mr. Ivens.
Hi all - new here. I finally signed in as a guest just to post in this thread. I read the whole thing and apparently there was no response to the letter to the Long Beach address? If you want to send it to me, I’ll drive up there and look/ask/whatever you want me to do. This must be resolved! <G>
What a guy!
The obvious question is: What qualifies you to do anyhing that hasn’t already been done?
We’ve had someone already knock on the door before?
Every time this thread gets bumped, I get a little giddy.
Every time this thread gets bumped without being resolved, I die a little inside.
That should ever this situation have a favorable outcome, that a new thread be created stating such.
Thereby letting me ignore this thread when I see it pop up again.
Do I have a second?
Of perhaps we can lock this one up and have a new one created should there ever be “Real” news.
Moderators???
By my calculations, you should be about 98% dead.
Well, he’s not quite dead yet.
Are you suggesting we kill it ourselves?
Seconded.
There’s been a couple of times that this thread has been bumped because someone asked if it had been resolved yet. Grrrr!
I 2nd that this thread be locked and a new thread opened with the title
Donald Eugene Ivens Found! if he is indeed found (and if that is his name I’m going from memory here).