Compounding benefits

Municipality of Central Groningen

Pursuant to the Participation Act, our municipality has to check the legitimacy of the benefit payments during their term. For this purpose, Midden-Groningen municipality uses the services of the national Intelligence Bureau in addition to the social investigation task force.

Last change on 10th of January 2025, at 16:25 (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

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Link to publication website

https://www.bwri.nl/bijstandsuitkering

Responsible use

Goal and impact

The Participation Act stipulates that municipalities have the statutory duty to provide social assistance benefits, but also to establish the legality of the benefits both at the start and during their term. The Intelligence Agency enables municipalities to take care of this effectively and efficiently.

On behalf of municipalities, the Intelligence Bureau requests information from various bodies. By comparing this information electronically with municipalities' files, changes in the situation of social assistance beneficiaries are made clear. The result of the information obtained is provided by the Intelligence Bureau in the form of concurrence signals, which can be automatically read into most municipal benefit administration packages. This makes the work process much easier for officials.

Considerations

Benefit recipients must report changes that affect their benefits to the municipality. But benefit recipients do not always manage to comply with this information obligation. With the help of information from the Intelligence Bureau, the municipality can better determine whether someone is still entitled to benefits. This makes work a lot easier for civil servants. There is also an advantage for benefit recipients. Subsequent payments or recoveries are prevented or reduced by this working method.

Human intervention

At the Intelligence Bureau itself, this algorithm does not involve human intervention. However, the Intelligence Bureau does ensure that the processing process has been carried out properly.

The municipality decides whether and how to implement 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).

The Intelligence Agency monitors whether the processing process has gone well

Legal basis

The Participation Act stipulates that municipalities have a statutory duty to provide social assistance benefits. Part of this is to establish lawfulness both at the start and during the term of the benefit. To check this, the legislator has designated a number of organisations (sources) in Section 64 of the Participation Act that are obliged to provide data necessary for this check. The Intelligence Bureau assists municipalities in this, combines and presents this data in the form of signals and reports that can be used by municipalities to implement lawfulness checks.

The processing of personal data as part of this information service has the following basis(s):

Basis of processing sources (general)

• Sections 64(1) and 68 of the Participation Act
• Section 45(1), Income Support for Older and Partially Disabled Former Self-Employed Persons Act (IOAW)
• Section 45(1), Income Support for Older and Partially Disabled Unemployed Workers Act (IOAZ)

Basis processing Intelligence Bureau:

• Sections 64(3) and 68 of the Participation Act
• Section 45(2), IOAW
• Section 45(2), IOAZ
• Section 63 Work and Income Implementation Organisation Structure Act (SUWI Act), Section 5.24(1) and (3), SUWI Decree & Sections 6.2 and 6.6 SUWI Regulation
• cooperation and exchange agreements

Basis of processing Municipalities:

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

Links to legal bases

Participatiewet: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0015703/2025-01-01

Impact assessment

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

Operations

Data

Data supplied by the municipality:

- BSN

- BSN (Beneficiary partner)

- NAW - Date of birth (Beneficiary)

- Start date of benefit period

- End date of benefit period

- Legal basis of benefit (Code indicating the type of benefit: 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 abovementioned codes for this purpose. The data received are stored in a customer tracking facility before being further processed.

- Gender

- Form of life

- Name partner

- Date start

- end of relationship

Technical design

The municipality provides a monthly list of all current benefits to the Intelligence Agency. Based on this list, the Intelligence Bureau continuously checks for circumstances that may affect the right to assistance. This involves automated consultation and checking of the following national sources, based on algorithms and automatic comparisons:

- Benefit administrations of all Dutch municipalities

- Correctional Institutions Agency (DJI)

- Central Judicial Collection Agency (CJIB)

- National Service for Identity Data (RvIG)

- Education Executive Agency (DUO)

- UWV (EMPLOYEE INSURANCE AGENCY)

- Tax Office

- Social Insurance Bank (SVB)

- National Road Transport Agency (RDW)

The result of this check is provided by the Intelligence Bureau in the form of concurrence signals, which are automatically read into our municipality's benefits administration.

These signals inform our employees of arising situations that may affect the legality of a benefit. They do not necessarily indicate illegality or fraud but only indicate that a situation is worthy of investigation.

The signal algorithms describe personal data from exchanges with municipalities. The list below concerns general data provided 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 indicating how the household is typed, 1= single-person household, 2 = multi-person household)

- BSN

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

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

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

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

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

- Concurrence code (the code indicating the possible concurrence)

- Start date (Depending on the concurrence, the start of the employment, social insurance, benefits from another municipality, registration with the DUO, detention, alert in the investigation register, or the start of the tax year is indicated here)

- End date (Depending on the concurrence, the end of the employment, social insurance, benefit from another municipality, registration with the DUO, or the end of the tax year is indicated here)

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

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

External provider

Intelligence Bureau