Potential fraud in the Help to Buy scheme 2018
This Data Usage Agreement for exploring potential fraud in the Help to Buy scheme 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 purpose of this data share is to identify where there is potential fraud in the Help to Buy scheme, relating to the over-inflation of income (fraud by misrepresentation) and the failure to declare existing property ownership at the point of application (fraud by omission).
This information sharing agreement will help Homes England to identify any fraud in the Help to Buy scheme, and to qualify the nature of this fraud. In doing so, Homes England will be able to assess compliance and review policies for preventative purposes only.