Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide methods and systems for distributing workload related to verifications. The workload is distributed among a large number of affiliates through a central server. The central server can receive verification requests from clients and makes the requests available to the affiliates. The affiliates can perform the verifications by, for example, calling the verifiers and can return the results back to the central server. A method of distributing workload includes receiving a verification request from a client, making the request electronically available to a plurality of affiliates, transferring the request electronically to one or more of the plurality of affiliates for fulfillment of the request, the fulfillment including contacting at least one verifier included in the request, and receiving results of the request fulfillment from the one or more affiliates.