Award of Individual Income Supplement

Municipality of Arnhem

The individual income supplement is a sum of money that the municipality gives once a year if a resident has to live on a low income for three years or more. The supplement can be spent freely, on which no tax has to be paid.

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General information

Theme

• Public finance
• Economy
• Social Security

Begin date

07-2023

Contact information

[e-mail]

Link to publication website

https://www.arnhem.nl/Inwoners/werk_en_inkomen/individuele_inkomenstoeslag

Link to source registration

https://opendata.arnhem.nl/

Responsible use

Goal and impact

The allocation of the individual income supplement aims to provide (partially automated) low-income residents with their supplement with the lowest possible administrative burden for the resident by reusing data already known to the municipality.

Considerations

See risk management

Human intervention

Lists based on which the IIT is awarded are compiled from data from the benefit records. This data is reviewed and verified by staff when it is first entered. In addition, several situations are exempted from automatic payment, such as fraud or a discrepancy in an input field if it indicates an error in the original input. Dropouts are assessed manually. Residents may also claim the supplement for a resident child who is not their own child: for these residents, a separate process applies in which this is assessed by an employee, as it is not evident from the BRP.

Risk management

There is a limited risk of a resident receiving an allowance wrongly or the wrong amount.

Risks are controlled by:

- the data used in this algorithm has been manually entered and checked in a process;

- there is some data that gives a higher risk of error in automatic payment, therefore if these fields occur a dropout has been organised and manually processed;

- if we as a municipality make a mistake we do not recover from the resident. This is explicitly decided by the college.

Legal basis

Participation Act

Links to legal bases

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

Operations

Data

The algorithm processes the following data

1) Data already known from the PW benefit delivery process

• First and last name (to address the decision)
• Address data (to send the decision)
• Death dates (rarely occur, as there is only a short time between death and termination of benefits)
• Income: data on current general benefit, date of last iit (The algorithm identifies individuals with current social assistance benefits. It does not look at the amount of the benefit).
• Any measure imposed (may affect entitlement to iit).
• Debtor files (may affect entitlement iit - fraud prevention)
• Account number

2) BRP data on resident child 12-17 years old

• Date of birth of children (needed to determine amount of entitlement)

Technical design

The algorithm is run by checking by client number whether residents meet the conditions to receive iit. Three categories come out: residents with entitlement, residents without entitlement, manually assessable residents. The list work is run for all residents with current general benefits. Based on the data in the listwork, it is determined which residents are entitled to iit.

External provider

Centric (Suite4socialdomain - administration) & Microsoft (PowerBI - listing)