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South Carolina and ID.me

The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) works with ID.me to verify claimants requesting benefits and services online. ID.me provides secure digital identity verification to government agencies and other organizations to make sure you are you—and not someone pretending to be you. This article explains how to verify with ID.me for South Carolina DEW.

How to verify

Follow the steps below to verify your identity.

1. Visit South Carolina DEW

To get started:

  1. Go to the DEW MyBenefits portal.
  2. Sign in with your DEW account, or select Register to create a new account.
  3. Select Verify with ID.me, and follow the steps below to verify your identity.
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2. Verify your identity

You can verify your identity for DEW using self-service or choose to verify on a video call.

If you can’t complete the self-service verification process due to an issue with your documents, you will be routed to verify your identity over a video call. 

After you verify

After you verify your ID.me account with, you can log in to your South Carolina DEW account by selecting Sign in with ID.me.

If you completed your verification with a Trusted Referee, follow the steps below to continue with your claim:

  1. Return to the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce portal.
  2. Log in with your South Carolina credentials.
  3. Select Verify with ID.me and enter your ID.me username and password.
  4. Select Allow and continue to complete the process and continue with your application.

Get help

Who you need to contact for help depends on if you completed the verification process or not.

ID.me

ID.me can help if you have trouble with the identity verification process. Common issues include:

South Carolina

They can best help with questions and next steps after you complete the verification process. For example, you may have questions about benefits or services you verified for. Before contacting them:

  1. Confirm your verification was successful
  2. Confirm you shared your information with the organization
  3. Review our best practices and sample messages of how to request help from the organization you need to access.