Darren Shillington, Project Coordinator, Northern

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Darren Shillington, Project Coordinator, Northern
Wales
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Session outline

• NFI 2004/05 results to date
• Creditors - a significant and immediate impact
• The introduction of risk based modules
• UK visas a powerful new dataset

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2004-05 successes Case 1

• Report 359 Failed Asylum Seeker
• Investigation involved 2 North West LAs and Job
  Centre Plus
• Guilty to obtaining money by deception,
  possessing a false passport, procuring an
  advantage to gain employment and a council
  property
• To serve 20 months imprisonment

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2004-05 successes Case 2

• A nurse who went off sick in July 2004, but was
  on a NFI report as also working full time for a
  London borough with a start date of July 2004.
  The Trust also believes this person has provided
  a false passport.
• A doctor who worked on rotation for two
  hospitals, but was also found to be working
  fulltime for an agency using his wifes bank
  details. The Trust is reclaiming one years
  salary.
• A health care assistant who found to have four
  posts covering two health bodies and a London
  borough from 2002 to date. Shifts appear to be
  overlapping and possible identity fraud issue.
  This case has been passed to CFSMS due to size of
  case.
• A non-surgical consultant was given an unpaid
  career break to work abroad, but was working for
  two other health bodies while he was supposed to
  be abroad and for an overlapping period when he
  was back with the Trust. This is a breach of
  contract case.

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2004-05 successes Case 3

• Report 665 Tenancy match to RTB between LBs
• 2 bed flat with lift, garage and estate parking
• Wandsworth tenant purchased Lambeth property
  under RTB
• Wandsworth property used by persons unknown
• Property vacated and re-let to family on Housing
  Register

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NFI 2004/05 Creditor Payments pilot
Stage 1 - Eleven tests to identify duplicates
Stage 2 Data modelling
Stage 3 Comparatives and Benfords Law

• Stage 4 Corruption

(Plan to wrap up in one NFI cd-rom)
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Stage 1 CAATS

• Very beneficial, great idea, etc
• Highlighting lots of housekeeping issues
• Data extraction needs to be improved for 2006/07
• Mandatory for all Local Government and much of NHS

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Stage 2 Data modelling

• Drilled down into CAATs data
• Flag payments that were likely to be erroneous
• Added known intelligence
• Results recently been sent out
• Concerns - output affected by data quality

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Benfords Law example
Refer back to the payments data to identify why
the spike has occurred
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Stage 4 - Corruption

• DTI agreed to provide full companies house
  database
• Match to payroll and creditors standing data to
  identify employees/members who are directors
• Cross match to history data to identify if
  trading with company
• Auditors will use this data to check the accuracy
  of register of interests
• Release to ? (to be decided depending on results)

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Risk based pilots
Matched to DWP deceased records

• Will be available to all in 06/07
• Participation based on assessed risk
• Quality of data could be an issue for some

Matched across authorities
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Case Study XYZ City Council

• Residential Care Homes
• Overpayments in excess of 100k
• Over 32k of monies recovered
• One fraud investigation with police
• Parking Permits
• 17 permits recovered
• 22 arrests
• Internal fraud
• Promoting NFI match as good practice at British
  Parking Association Conference

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Pilot Results Insurance

• 75 serial insurance claimants being investigated
• Payouts were matched to housing benefits capital
  declared (18 cases)
• Of maximise value if neighbours participate
• Possibility to obtain data direct from main
  insurer 70 coverage

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UK visas a powerful new data source
Match to
Outcomes

• Payroll
• housing benefits
• housing rents
• students (?)

• unlawful employment
• benefit fraud
• tenancy fraud
• identify unlawful entrants
• locate overstayers

• 5 million records
• expired visas
• refused entry
• granted with conditions

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Summary

• NFI savings exceeded 1/4 billion
• Introduction of creditors means 100 coverage of
  expenditure
• New risk based modules mirror audit approach
• NFI will become web based possibly by 2006/07