The IRS estimates that they sent out over $5 billion in fraudulent returns last year. The best way to defend against this type of identity fraud is to file your taxes as early as you can. Employers should offer credit monitoring as an employee benefit to employees. The FTC requires each of the three credit reporting agencies to provide you one free credit report each year. This gives a pretty good view of your credit all year and is entirely free to use every few years. It doesn’t have to cost the enterprise anything more than the administrative costs to maintain the program.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2886986/credit-monitoring-as-an-employee-benefit.html