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Data-sharing move aims to tackle housing benefit fraud

Hammersmith and Fulham LBC has endorsed a data-sharing initiative to prevent social housing fraud.

Hammersmith and Fulham LBC has endorsed a data-sharing initiative to prevent social housing fraud.

The scheme, led by Experian Public Sector, aims to create a database of all UK social housing providers, and issue fraud alerts to local authorities by matching tenancy, waiting and temporary accommodations lists with evidence of duplicate residencies.

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