Confluence signaling

Intelligence Agency Foundation

The Intelligence Agency receives lists of people with social assistance benefits from municipalities and compares these with data from sources such as UWV, DUO and the Tax and Customs Administration. If there is an overlap (concurrence) that could affect the benefit, IB sends a message to the municipalities. The municipality can then carry out further checks.

Last change on 16th of July 2024, at 13:03 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0

• Publication category: Impactful algorithms
• Impact assessment: DPIA
• Status: In use

General information

Theme

Social Security

Begin date

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Contact information

https://www.inlichtingenbureau.nl/Over-ons/Contact

Link to publication website

https://www.inlichtingenbureau.nl/Beleidsterreinen/Werk-en-Bestaanszekerheid/Rechtmatigheidscontrole

Responsible use

Goal and impact

A resident applies for social assistance. The municipality must determine whether the citizen is entitled to this. The Information Bureau helps municipalities with this. During a benefit, the situation of the person entitled to social assistance may change. This can affect the benefit. For example, if someone has social assistance and a job (income) at the same time. This can sometimes mean that the benefit must be adjusted or stopped. In these cases, the municipality receives a message from the Information Bureau. This saves the municipality a lot of work in determining whether someone is still entitled to a benefit. This prevents people with a benefit from having to deal with recoveries much later.

Considerations

Benefit recipients must report changes that affect their benefits to the municipality. However, benefit recipients do not always succeed in complying with this duty to provide information. With the help of the information from the Information Agency, the municipality can better determine whether someone is still entitled to benefits. This makes the work of civil servants a lot easier. There is also an advantage for benefit recipients. Additional payments or recoveries are prevented or reduced by this method.

Human intervention

At the Intelligence Agency itself, there is no human intervention in this algorithm. However, the Intelligence Agency does ensure that the processing has been carried out correctly.

The municipality determines whether and how it will implement a change.

Risk management

The privacy of the citizen is an important point of attention. That is why it is periodically checked whether there are risks and what can be done about them. This is called privacy impact assessment (PIA).

The Intelligence Agency monitors whether the processing has gone well.

Legal basis

The Participation Act stipulates that municipalities have the legal duty to provide social assistance benefits. Part of this is to determine the legality of the benefit both at the start and during the term. For the assessment of this, the legislator has designated a number of organisations (sources) in article 64 of the Participation Act that are obliged to provide data that are necessary for this assessment. The Intelligence Agency helps municipalities with this, combines and presents this data in the form of signals and reports that can be used by municipalities to implement legality checks.

The processing of personal data in the context of this information service has the following basis(es):

Basis for processing sources (general)

• Article 64, first paragraph, and Article 68 of the Participation Act
• Article 45, paragraph 1, Income Provision for Older and Partially Disabled Former Self-Employed Persons Act (IOAW)
• Article 45, paragraph 1, Income Provision for Older and Partially Disabled Unemployed Workers Act (IOAZ)

Basis for processing by the Intelligence Agency:

• Article 64, third paragraph, and Article 68 of the Participation Act
• Article 45, paragraph 2, IOAW
• Article 45, paragraph 2, IOAZ
• Article 63 of the Work and Income Implementation Agency Structure Act (SUWI Act), Article 5.24, paragraphs 1 and 3, SUWI Decree & Articles 6.2 and 6.6 of the SUWI Regulation
• cooperation and exchange agreements

Basis for processing Municipalities:

• Chapter 5 'Implementation' and Chapter 6 “Powers and facilities of municipalities” Participation Act
• Article 62 SUWI Act

Links to legal bases

Participatiewet: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0015703/2024-01-01

Link to Processing Index

https://www.inlichtingenbureau.nl/Over-ons/Privacy-en-Veiligheid/Privacy-en-burgers

Impact assessment

Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA): https://www.inlichtingenbureau.nl/Over-ons/Privacy-en-Veiligheid/Privacy-en-burgers

Operations

Data

Data provided by the municipality:

- BSN

- BSN (Partner of benefit recipient)

- Name and address - Date of birth (benefit recipient)

- Start date of the benefit period

- End date of the benefit period

- Legal basis for benefits (Code indicating the type of benefits involved: IOAW, WWB or AB, IOAZ). WWB and AB (General Assistance) refer to social assistance benefits as referred to in the Participation Act. The software supports the codes mentioned for this purpose. The data received is stored in a customer tracking facility before being processed further.

- Sex

-Lifestyle

- Name partner

- Date start

- end of relationship

Technical design

In connection with the statutory duties of municipalities in the lawful provision of assistance, the Intelligence Agency supports municipalities by carrying out file comparisons on data from various sources.

See the signal keys below on this site for more detailed information:

- Signal detention (including detention abroad) - Stichting Inlichtingenbureau (overheid.nl)

(see https://algorithms.overheid.nl/nl/algorithm/signal-detention-including-detention-abroad-foundation-intelligence-bureau/32198791)

- Signal of fugitive convicts

- Signal benefit from other municipality

- Student finance signal

- Cost sharers signal

- Signal start income ratio

- Signal income Box 1

- Signal power balance/interest

- Signal power Box 3

- Vehicle ownership signal

- Signal registration college/university

- Signal bank account number

- Signal tax credits

- Signal support income settlement assistance

In the signal algorithms, personal data are described from the exchange with municipalities. The list below concerns general data that are supplied with each signal.

- GSD

- code (municipal code according to the GBA)

- Signal number (Unique identification number of the created signal)

- File code (of the file to which the signal belongs)

- Household type (indicator showing how the household is classified, 1 = single-person household, 2 = multi-person household)

- BSN

- Legal basis (Code indicating what type of benefit it concerns: IOAW, WWB or AB, IOAZ)

- Start date-ukp (start date of the benefit period)

- End date-ukp (end date of the benefit period)

- System End (Indicator showing whether the end date was set by the Intelligence Bureau or whether this is the end date provided by the GSD)

- Initials, prefix, name (of the person the signal belongs to)

- Concurrence code (the code that indicates which possible coincidence is involved)

- Start date (Depending on the coincidence, this will state the start of employment, social insurance, benefits from another municipality, registration with the DUO, detention, notification in the wanted register, or the start of the tax year)

- End date (Depending on the coincidence, this will state the end of employment, social insurance, benefits from another municipality, registration with the DUO, or the end of the tax year)

- Creation Date (The creation date and time of the signal determined by the confluence application)

- Current (Indicator showing whether a signal is current or invalid: 1 = current, 0 = invalid. A signal is invalid if there is no longer any coincidence afterwards due to a date correction in the payment period or the source data)

External provider

Developed internally.