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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 14564, tabled on 8 June 2022

Question

Kate Osamor
Labour
Edmonton
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether risk scoring or other algorithms are used to identify Universal Credit claimants for potential review by the Risk Review Team.

Answer

David Rutley
Conservative
Macclesfield
Commons

Answered on

17 June 2022

Risk scoring is used to identify Universal Credit claims for potential review by the Risk Review Team. Once the review is completed a DWP agent would decide if a fraud investigation is required.

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Department for Work and Pensions