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Reporting AOW recipients with AIO
- Publication category
- Impactful algorithms
- Impact assessment
- DPIA
- Status
- In use
General information
Theme
Begin date
Contact information
Link to publication website
Responsible use
Goal and impact
Sometimes citizens have incomplete state pension benefits. They may be entitled to special assistance. But they sometimes do not know that. The municipality can inform them about this. But to do so, the municipality needs to know which citizens are concerned. That is why the Social Insurance Bank draws up a list of citizens who may be entitled to it. Bureau InformatieDiensten Nederland (BIDN) uses this algorithm to ensure that each municipality only receives data on its own residents and not on residents of other municipalities.
In principle, it is the responsibility of citizens themselves to apply for income assistance. But municipalities are encouraged to help vulnerable citizens. So this is in the citizen's interest.
Considerations
The 'Reporting AOW-ers with AIO' is part of the information service Samenloopsignalering (see algorithm 'Samenloopsignalering'). Only the specific points about the 'Reporting AOW-ers with AIO' are explained here.
The algorithm ensures that a municipality only receives the data of its own residents.
HHereby, we protect the privacy of citizens. 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
With BIDN itself, this algorithm does not involve human intervention. The algorithm executes rules devised by humans and is not 'self-learning'.
However, BIDN does ensure that the processing process has been done properly.
The municipality can tell the citizen that they may be entitled to extra help. The municipality can also choose to grant this help automatically. The municipality makes the decision on this.
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
The processing of personal data in the context of the 'Special assistance' information service has the following basis(s):
Basis provision by SVB:
- Section 64(1), Participation Act
- Article 45(1)(b), Income Support for Older and Partly Incapacitated Former Self-Employed Persons Act (IOAW)
- Section 45(1)(b) Income Support for Older Workers Act (IOAZ).
Basis for processing municipality(s):
- Chapter 5 'Implementation' and Chapter 6 'Powers and facilities of municipalities' Participation Act
Basis of processing BIDN:
- Article 64(3) and Article 68 Participation Act
- Article 45(2), IOAW
- Article 45(2), IOAZ
- Section 63 Work and Income Implementation Organisation Act (SUWI), Section 5.24, paragraphs 1 and 3, SUWI Decree & Sections 6.2 and 6.6 SUWI Regulation
See also the Data Register BIDN. Processing Activities Act SUWI / Participation Act on the BIDN website on the following page: https://www.bidn.nl/privacy-beleid
Links to legal bases
Link to Processing Index
Impact assessment
Operations
Data
Submitted by SVB:
BSN,
Census by municipality,
Municipality code,
Total number of beneficiaries,
Total number of households,
Social security number-principal person,
Surname-principal person,
Initials-major person,
Prefix-principal person,
First name-principal person,
Date of birth-principal person,
Postcode numeric,
Postcode letters,
House number,
House number addition,
Street name,
Town name,
Social security number-partner,
Surname-partner,
Initials-partner,
Prefix-partner,
First name-partner,
Date of birth-partner,
Entitlement start date,
End date of entitlement,
WWB standard
Technical design
The source data contains a field with the municipality code. The algorithm splits the source file based on these municipality codes and divides it into a smaller file per municipality.
The generic services provided by the information service include:
Splitting a source file to be received monthly from SVB by municipality and delivering it to municipality based on a report in CSV.
Data passed on:
BSN,
Municipality code,
Total number of beneficiaries,
Total number of households,
Social security number-principal person,
Surname-principal person,
Initials-major person,
Prefix-principal person,
First name-principal person,
Date of birth-principal person,
Postcode numeric,
Postcode letters,
House number,
House number addition,
Street name,
Place name,
Social security number-partner (if applicable),
Surname-partner,
Initials-partner,
Prefix-partner,
First name-partner,
Date of birth-partner,
Entitlement start date,
End date of entitlement,
WWB standard
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