Checkr

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Forty percent of U.S. hiring managers have interviewed a candidate later found to be using a fake identity, up from 31% in 2025, according to a new survey from verification platform Checkr.

The report, The Hiring Hoax 2026: Fraud Doesn't End at the Offer, is based on responses from 3,000 U.S. managers involved in hiring within the previous 12 months. The online survey ran Sept. 11-16, 2026, through a third-party platform.

Fraud training jumps to 71% of HR teams, but confidence stays at 23%

Formal fraud training among HR teams has risen from 17% to 71%. Only 23% of managers are extremely confident their hiring process would catch a fraudulent candidate.

San Francisco – October 06, 2026 -- Checkr has expanded its mortgage verification offering to cover more than 97% of U.S. workers with a 75% completion rate, adding new data sources as borrower income grows increasingly volatile.

Income instability among mortgage applicants rose to 62% in 2025 from 50% in 2022

Truework's 2026 housing affordability research, based on roughly 300,000 mortgage applicant records, found the share of applicants with unstable income climbed to 62% in 2025, up from 50% in 2022. The severity of income swings nearly tripled over the same period, according to the study.