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FOI request (FOI-81668418)
Risk-based verification (RBV)
Requested Mon 16 July 2018
Responded Fri 10 August 2018I wish to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for the following records which I believe to be held by this council.
The points in the following request refer to the use of risk-based-verification software applied to Housing Benefit claims in the year 2017/18, or the most recent financial year for which full-year data is available.
I would like to request the following information:
- The name of the software system used by the council for the purposes of risk based verification and the company that manufactures said software
- The total number of claims on which risk based verification was used
- the total number of claims from white* applicants which were flagged by the system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn
- the total number of claims from black* applicants which were flagged by the system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn
- the total number of claims from Asian* applicants which were flagged by the system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn
- the total number of claims from mixed-race* applicants which were flagged by the system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn
- the total number of claims from other* applicants which were flagged by the system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn
* or equivalent ethnicity as recorded by the council.
Please note that I wish to receive this information in electronic format, preferably in an Excel or csv file.
Response
Hastings Borough Council does not currently use risk based verification software.
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