Identity Theft Protection

The South Carolina Budget and Control Board announced on October 4, 2013 that CSID received the award to assist South Carolina taxpayers whose personal information was compromised during the 2012 Department of Revenue (DOR) security breach. Eligible taxpayers will be able to enroll either online or over the phone with CSID’s state-provided identity protection coverage on October 24, 2013. Individuals, minor and adult dependents, and businesses whose information was potentially compromised in the security breach can sign up and receive state-provided identity protection coverage through CSID, at http://www.scidprotection.com/ or 855-880-2743, again, beginning October 24, 2013. The deadline to enroll is November 1, 2014. This will be much better protection that previously offered.

CSID identity protections include:

  • Credit bureau monitoring
  • Pay day loan monitoring
  • Court and criminal records monitoring: tracks municipal court systems and alerts enrolled persons if a criminal act is committed using their identity
  • Social security number trace monitoring
  • Cyber monitoring
  • Sex offender monitoring
  • Child identity monitoring, and more.

For more information or a list of frequently asked questions, please visit the DOR website at www.sctax.org/security

You can download an information sheet by clicking here.

You can download a FAQ sheet by clicking here.

Nullification of Obamacare

I reported to you in one my last updates during the legislative session that I had hundreds of emails and tons of phone calls asking me to do whatever possible to stop Obamacare! I also reported to you that the RINOcrat majority killed that effort out of pure spite. Well, we see that the RINOcrat majority also is alive and well in Washington, D. C. where many elected Republicans, especially in the Senate, “compromised” with Barack Obama to keep Obamacare alive and kicking. That makes it more important than ever that we return in January and kill it here in South Carolina. The bill is on the Senate floor, but I need other Republicans, including Governor Haley, to get behind that bill and fight for its passage. The time for excuses is over. We either nullify Obamacare now, or it will infect us for many years to come.

I will give more updates and the devastating impacts it will have on our children and grandchildren closer to January.

Debt Bomb

You also may recall that we left last session after setting off a debt bomb to the magnitude of over $1 BILLION dollars (in principal and interest) in the names of road funding and corporate welfare. I mentioned to you then that the Assembly and the Governor detonated the debt bomb without so much as even a term sheet to tell us how much we’d be sending to Wall Street in interest and fees. Well, we still (almost 5 months later) don’t know, but a good estimate is that at least one-third of that will line some banker’s pockets and not pave the first foot of road or create one job here in South Carolina. I had only a handful of Senators join me in opposition to the atrocities, even after I let them know that we had no term sheet, but as I’ve spoken to you all in meetings across the district I can see that you get it. I imagine that some of my colleagues have had the same experience. I don’t know if we’ll see another such attempt this year, but I’ll fight it again because I know that’s what my constituents want. Here is a link to a nice article from the Union Daily Times covering my update to the Union Rotary Club and touching on this very subject:

http://www.uniondailytimes.com/news/home_top-news/2583258/Martin:-State-underfunding-needed-services