New hire used a fake address to get the job
Employees sometimes use a family member's address in another state to secure a local job and later expose the discrepancy by submitting out-of-state mileage reimbursement. This leaves employers unsure of their legal responsibilities regarding tax compliance, whether they must report the discrepancy, and how to verify an employee's actual residence.
Core Friction Pattern
Analysis of 2 peer accounts across online developer and community forums reveals that “New hire used a fake address to get the job” repeatedly surfaces due to edge-case mismatches between standard defaults and real-world environments. Standard troubleshooting frequently falls short, compelling practitioners to develop custom workarounds.
+6 alternative community-tested workarounds cataloged below.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- People have been saying this in most months since September 2026.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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New hire used a fake address to get the job
- 1Rejecting the mileage reimbursement for out-of-state travelDid this help you?
- 2Terminaton due to falsified application information or breach of integrityDid this help you?
- 3Giving the employee a deadline to move back to the required locationDid this help you?
- 4Changing job description wording from driver's license requirements to specific residency radiusesDid this help you?
- 5Calling or contacting the employee directly to ask for confirmation of their home or mailing addressDid this help you?
- 6Checking whether the address can be split into separate home and mailing addresses in the HRISDid this help you?
- 7Verifying tax withholdings to ensure they align with the state where the work is performedDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I work for a company in MD, and we are trying to figure out our responsibility/next steps when an employee has used an address that's not theirs to obtain a job.”source ↗
“this employee is relatively new, within a month of starting, and just raised it to our attention because they are submitting their receipts for mileage reimbursement from PA and asked how to update their address.”source ↗
“They used their family member's address in Baltimore for the application and tax forms. That is the address we shipped their equipment to as well.”source ↗
“Do we have any responsibility to report this to anyone? Will they have to pay back taxes for the change now?”source ↗
“Also, how would we 'verify' if someone is residing at the address they applied with-- if we can?”source ↗
“We are a CT business & have a recent new hire who has listed their home address in our HRIS as living in North Carolina. We do not offer remote work and I think the daily commute would be just brutal.”source ↗
“can I require them to change their address in our system? Even if it is a temporary living arrangment?”source ↗
“That is part of the issue, based on the NC address we are usure. Either they are currently residing in CT, but since it's a small state and where we are located they could also live in NY.”source ↗
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