Issue details

To revoke the current Risk Based Verification Policy (RBV).
The RBV Policy was introduced in April 2013 to help speed up the processing of Housing Benefit claims by automatically categorizing them into risk groups and applying a level of verification on each case depending on the risk group applied.

Since the Policy was introduced, technology and data sharing with other government departments such as HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions has improved greatly and the need to collect information directly from benefit claimants has reduced. All claims can now be verified to a high level without the need for an automated Risk Based verification System.