National Fraud Initiative: HMRC and local authority counter-fraud pilot 2018
This Data Usage Agreement for the National Fraud Initiative (NFI), HMRC and local authority counter-fraud pilot was agreed and put in place in 2018.
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This agreement is published as part of the Code of Practice for public authorities disclosing information under Chapters 1, 3 and 4 (Public Service Delivery, Debt and Fraud) of Part 5 of the Digital Economy Act 2017.
The National Fraud Initiative (NFI) is the Cabinet Office’s UK-wide data matching exercise. It is exploring the potential value and effectiveness of using HMRC data to better identify and prevent fraud. We will share records containing personal data with HMRC. These will be matched against HMRC records and additional HMRC information appended and fed back to the NFI to be evaluated as to how it may improve the NFI national exercise.
The expected benefits are:
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to provide additional intelligence on data matches already generated and released by the NFI for participant organisations to consider and investigate where appropriate
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to allow the NFI to update its fraud risk scoring of these released matches
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to assist with the reduction of potential false positive data match disclosure within the existing NFI data matching
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to allow additional counter fraud data matches to be generated from just the additional HMRC results