Risk model DPIA

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

The DWP ARA 2021-22 states that: 'The Committee of Public Accounts has also recommended that the Department make progress in tackling advances fraud. As part of its response, the Department has trialled a risk model to detect fraud in Universal Credit advances claims. This model analyses information from historical fraud cases to predict which cases are likely to be fraudulent in the future. Cases scored as potentially fraudulent by the model are flagged to caseworkers, who then prioritise the review and processing of such cases accordingly. In 2021-22 the model has been run to detect fraud in advances claims already in payment. The Department expects to trial the model on claims before any payment has been made early in 2022-23. If successful this could improve its ability to prevent fraud before these benefits are paid out, avoiding the need to seek recovery.'

This letter states that an Equality Analysis was completed for the 'overall project' of which the risk model was a part: https://committees.parliament.uk/publica...

Please provide, for the overall project of which the risk model is a part, the following:
1. all Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs);
2. documents containing information indicating whether or not each DPIA was sent to the ICO;
3. any written advice or formal warnings provided by the ICO regarding each DPIA;
4. (if relevant) documented reasons for not carrying out a DPIA.

Yours faithfully,

Owen Stevens

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Dear Owen Stevens,

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October.

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