Identity theft can facilitate employment fraud if the thief uses the victim's personally identifiable information to obtain a job or defraud the government. The Identity Theft Resource Center predicts that for 2009, there may be an increase in the fraudulent use of SSNs — by people who either do not have a SSN or for some reason cannot use their own — to obtain work. This could adversely affect the victim's credit, ability to file his or her taxes, and ability to obtain future employment, among other things.