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Case studies – Private Sector

The National Fraud Initiative has a number of private sector clients. We have helped them identify fraud and errors in a variety of areas. Learn more from these case studies.

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Payroll case studies

A National Insurance (NI) number on the payroll data file provided by a leading housing association appeared on a NFI report because it did not pass a NI number validation test.

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Immigration case studies

Matching payroll records to information about refused visas and failed asylum seekers was a successful data match for DSG International plc, the owners of Dixons, Currys and PC World.

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Pension case studies

As a result of participating in NFI the technology company Invensys was able to identify 63 instances where it had not been informed of a pensioner's death and had continued to pay the pension.

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Housing case studies

Data matching of housing information revealed that a person held two separate tenancies at the same time with different social housing landlords.