Signal vehicle ownership

Stichting Inlichtingenbureau

Does a benefit recipient own a car or other vehicle? If so, this may affect the determination of assets. It is therefore important for municipalities and the Social Insurance Bank (SVB) to receive information on vehicle ownership.

Last change on 5th of June 2025, at 12:28 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0

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

General information

Theme

Social Security

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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/Voertuigbezit

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Does a benefit recipient own a car or other vehicle? If so, this may affect the determination of assets. Therefore, it is important for municipalities and the Social Insurance Bank (SVB) to receive information on vehicle ownership.

For this information product, the Inlichtingenbureau exchanges data with the Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer (RDW).

Not every vehicle someone owns affects their entitlement to benefits. That is why the Intelligence Bureau looks carefully at which vehicles may be important for benefit assessment.

Some signals are labelled because they may affect the benefit. For example:

- If someone has several vehicles.

- If someone has an expensive brand of car.

In this way, the Intelligence Agency helps municipalities better assess whether someone is entitled to a benefit.

Considerations

'Signal vehicle ownership' is part of the information service Samenloopsignalering (see algorithm 'Samenloopsignalering'). Here, only the specific points are explained about 'Signal vehicle possession'.

By 'concurrence' we mean that a current benefit coincides with vehicle ownership.

Wealth can affect the entitlement and amount of a benefit.

The algorithm ensures that municipalities only receive data from their own residents with social security benefits and in which a change has occurred that may affect the permissible exempted assets. This protects citizens' privacy. An advantage of this algorithm is that it works much faster than when someone does it by hand. This saves a lot of time for municipal employees. Also, fewer mistakes are made this way.

Human intervention

At the Intelligence Agency itself, this algorithm does not involve human intervention. The algorithm implements rules devised by humans and is not 'self-learning'.

However, the Inlichtingenbureau does ensure that the processing process has gone well.

The municipality decides whether and how to deal with a change.

Risk management

Citizen privacy is a major concern. That is why we periodically check whether there are risks and what can be done about them. This is called privacy impact assessment (PIA).

Legal basis

For the generic basis of the processing of personal data, see the "Samenloopsignalering" algorithm.

The possession of a vehicle may represent a value that belongs to the resources as mentioned in Article 31 Participation Act (determining resources/assets and income components) and of this it must be assessed whether this affects the lawful provision of assistance.

Basis RDW processing (source):

- Article 41a, first paragraph under a, Road Traffic Act (WvW)

- Article 42, fourth paragraph under c, j° article 43, first paragraph, WvW

- Chapter 1 and Appendix A (Government bodies - administrative bodies) Policy Rules on checking information from the vehicle registration register

Basis for processing IB:

- Service Level Agreement RDW - Stichting Inlichtingenbureau (SLA)

- Document Agreements and procedures RDW - Stichting Inlichtingenbureau (DAP)

- Agreement Municipalities - IB missing, see risk R202406.07

- Section 63 SUWI Act, Section 5.24, paragraphs 1 and 3, SUWI Decree & Sections 6.2 and 6.6 SUWI Regulation, see PIA Samenloopsignalering Algemeen (PIP6) for the generic risk and measure.

Basis of processing Municipalities:

- Articles 31, 32 and 34 Participation Act

- Chapter 5 'Implementation' and Chapter 6 'Powers and facilities of municipalities' Participation Act.

Basis of processing SVB:

- Article 47a Participation Act.

See also Data Register Stichting Inlichtingenbureau. Processing activities Act SUWI / Participation Act on the IB website at the following page: https://www.inlichtingenbureau.nl/Over-ons/Privacy-en-Veiligheid/Privacy-en-burgers

Links to legal bases

Participatiewet: https://wetten.overheid.nl

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

For this, see the algorithm Concurrent signalling (A):

- BSN

- Start date selection period (at file level)

- End date selection period (at file level)

The request to RDW based on the municipality's / SVB's benefit file (B).

Based on the demand file, RDW returns response files (C):

RDW01 ActualVehiclePossession

RDW02 CurrentStatusinformation

RDW03 Historical Vehicle Ownership

RDW04 HistoricalStatusinformation

RDW05 NoVehiclePossession

RDW07 HistoricalSpecialVehiclePossession

RDW08 Special Vehicle Ownership

- BSN

- Vehicle registration number

- Brand code

- Brand description

- Type description

- Start date liability

- End date of liability

- Vehicle fuel code

- Second vehicle fuel code

- Empty vehicle mass

- Vehicle classification

- Special-vehicle

- Vehicle status

- Vehicle status start date

- End date status vehicle

The IB compares whether there is overlap in the data supplied (D).

Signal report to municipalities (E):

The IB labels RDW signals to indicate to municipalities from which reason a signal for asset control was created. Municipalities can also turn on the 'Handle administration' filter. On this basis, the IB filters the signals that are not expected to have an impact on the resident's asset position in relation to the benefit. The following reasons may trigger the tag 'Perform wealth check':

- Moped <2 years excluding disabled mopeds

- Caravan < 10 years old

- More than 1 currently registered vehicle per family

- More than 1 vehicle currently registered

- Vehicle construction year < 6 years

- Vehicle year of manufacture < 8 years excl. low-priced vehicles

- Durable vehicle year of manufacture < 12 years

- Durable vehicle (based on exclusive car list)

In all other cases a tag 'Administrative handling' is included if the municipalities have chosen to enable this filter.

Technical design

The concurrence with current vehicle ownership occurs when the BSN of an assistance customer matches the BSN in the RDW database and there is also a registration number and a unique 'start date of registration' registered. In that case, the IB delivers a signal. Using detail data around the vehicle, the municipality or the SVB can look up the economic value of a vehicle in question by comparing it with reliable price lists from, for example, the ANWB or BOVAG.

A. The municipality's benefit file;

B. The application to RDW based on the municipality's benefit file / SVB;

C. The delivery of RDW's file of BSNs with vehicle ownership;

D. The IB compares whether there is overlap in the supplied data;

E. In case of overlap, the IB sends a signal to the municipality.

External provider

Internally developed