GOV.UK Verify
Updated 21 August 2024
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GOV.UK Verify has closed
You can no longer use GOV.UK Verify to create a new identity account, or use an existing identity account to sign in to any government services.
How to access services that no longer use GOV.UK Verify
The service you need to use will make it clear how to access it instead.
It may have got in touch with you directly, such as by email, or it may make it clear in the service itself.
Contact the service you need if you’re not sure.
Services that previously used GOV.UK Verify
- Check your Income Tax for the current year (HMRC)
- Help friends or family with their tax (HMRC)
- Sign in and file your Self Assessment tax return (HMRC)
- Sign in to your personal tax account (HMRC)
- Apply for Universal Credit with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- Check your State Pension (DWP and HMRC)
- Get your State Pension (DWP)
- View or share your driving licence information (DVLA)
- Report a medical condition that affects your driving (DVLA)
- Renew your short-term medical driving licence (DVLA)
- Request a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (DBS)
- Apply for a vehicle operator licence with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)
- Verify your identity to apply to become a registered social worker in England (Social Work England)
- Add a driving licence check code to your mobile phone (DVLA)
- Sign your mortgage deed with HM Land Registry
- Update your rural payments details with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Sign in to view your Total Reward Statement with the NHS Business Services Authority
What’s happening to your data
Post Office and Digidentity have deleted all GOV.UK Verify accounts.
After deleting accounts, Digidentity and Post Office are required to keep some information for up to 7 years. This is for audit, counter-fraud and record keeping reasons.
How to get help
If you have a question about your account
Contact the company you proved your identity with:
If you have a question about a service that previously used GOV.UK Verify
You need to contact the service itself.
About GOV.UK Verify
GOV.UK Verify was a secure way to prove who you are online. Once you had proved your identity to access a service once, you could use your identity account to access certain other services.
‘Identity providers’ carried out the identity checks. These were companies that the government had approved to verify identities. This was for user privacy and security reasons.
With GOV.UK Verify:
- information was not stored in one place
- there was no unnecessary sharing of user information
- the government department did not know which identity provider you had chosen
- all the identity providers had to meet government and international standards for security and data protection
The replacement for GOV.UK Verify is GOV.UK One Login, which is being built by the Government Digital Service. You can read about progress with GOV.UK One Login on the GDS blog.