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Can an Employer Deny a Job for a Crime Over 7 Years Old? If you’ve heard of the “7-year rule,” you might think old criminal records simply disappear from background checks after seven years. Many job seekers believe this, and many employers assume the opposite: that they can consider any record, no matter how old. […]
FACIS, Medicaid, and VA Contracts: The Caregiver Screening Rules Every Home Care Agency Needs to Know If your home care agency bills Medicaid or holds a contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), you are mandated to do specialized exclusion screening. It is the difference between getting paid and owing the federal government a […]
How Long Does a DUI Show Up on a Background Check? You look up a job applicant online and a DUI pops up, perhaps in a news story or on a police site. But the background check you ordered comes back clean. So what happened? Is the background check company swindling you? A background check […]
Our team often gets asked what to do in the case that a candidate does not have a SSN number. Yes, you can run a background check with no Social Security Number and certain industries will run into this more often than you’d think. At Sure Check, we can still screen these candidates. Here’s exactly […]
Caregiver Background Screening Requirements: A State-by-State Guide for Home Care Franchises When you run a home care or senior care business, the people you hire are everything. They help your clients with their everyday needs – bathing, medication, meals, and daily lives. That level of trust is huge. A single hire gone wrong can hurt […]
Colorado has a new firearms law – signed Senate Bill 25-003 on April 10, 2025. The law takes effect August 1, 2026. The biggest change is a new name-based background check. Before you can buy certain semiautomatic firearms in Colorado, you must pass a state background check and get a new card called the Firearms […]
