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  • FOI request (FOI-81668418)

    Risk-based verification (RBV)

    Requested Mon 16 July 2018
    Responded  Fri 10 August 2018

    I 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:

    1. The name of the software system used by the council for the purposes of risk based verification and the company that manufactures said software
    2. The total number of claims on which risk based verification was used
    3. 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system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn
    4. 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system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn
    5. 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system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn
    6. 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system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn
    7. 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system as being a) low-risk b) medium-risk, c) high-risk and the number of said claims which were subsequently refused/withdrawn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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