Employment Verification Letter Requests Spike Up After Recent Deadline

This from ‘anonymous’, via e-mail to VREAA, 16 Apr 2011 – “I work for a company that employs just over 20,000 people in BC, the bulk of whom live in the lower mainland. I work in a department that deals with the types of requests I will describe to you.  Basically, in the weeks that followed the week of March 18 [2011] (mortgage rule change date) We were INUNDATED with request to supply letters for employees to bring to banks to verify employment, wages and such (for mortgages, of course, and yes I ask what the letters are for to distinguish what needs to be written). We usually get maybe 10 or so requests a week, but for that week AFTER March 18, woah! Major increase in general, and for a few days we were getting 20-30 requests a day. It has slowed down a lot now, maybe just a little above the norm.  I just don’t get it, why the increase after the deadline?  I realize that out of 20 000 people 20-30 requests a day might not sound major, but it still caught my attention.”