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BDM (Marriages)/MSD Married Persons Programme
Annual Report
Purpose: To identify current clients who have married so that MSD can update client records and reassess their eligibility for benefits and allowances.
Year commenced: 2005
Features: Data transferred weekly by online transfer.
BDM disclosure to MSD: BDM provides marriage information covering the week prior to the extraction date. The marriage details include the full names of each spouse (including name at birth if different from current name), their birth dates and addresses, and registration and marriage dates.
2010/11 activity:
New match runs started in the reporting period
| Match runs | 52 |
| Records received for matching | 22,695 |
| Possible matches identified | 3,018 |
| Matches that required no further action | 1,799 |
| Notices of adverse action | 1,225 |
| Challenges | 1 |
| Successful challenges | 1 |
| Overpayments established | 482 |
| Value of overpayments established | $631,374 |
Compliance: Compliant.
Technical information
| Information matching provision | Tax Administration Act 1994, s.85G |
| Year authorised | 2004 |
| Programme type | Identifying unclaimed entitlement |
| Unique identifiers | Tax File number MSD client number |
| On-line transfers | Yes |
System description
Each week, BDM provides MSD with the details of newly married individuals. The marriage details include marriage registration date, marriage date and first name, surname, date of birth and address for both spouses. To retrieve the BDM file, MSD uses an encrypted connection to access the DIA web server via the Government Logon Service (GLS).
MSD compares the marriage information with its active client data. The matching process produces match results that are weighted to indicate the probability that an MSD client is the person on the marriages register.
The match results are transferred into MSD's data matching case management system, AIMOS where they are manually checked before any action is taken. These preliminary checks may reveal, for instance, that the beneficiary has already notified MSD of the marriage.
Historical activity
| 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 |
| Match runs | 32 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 53 |
| Records compared | 17,739 | 23,775 | 23,776 | 23,378 | 23,556 |
| Client cases | 2,180 | 2,604 | 2,620 | 2,646 | 3,189 |
| Legitimate cases | 1,437 | 1,619 | 1,562 | 1,572 | 1,879 |
| Notices of adverse action | 755 | 1,001 | 1,064 | 1,085 | 1,265 |
| Overpayments established (number) | 491 | 581 | 601 | 498 | 427 |
| Overpayments established | $445,859 | $508,690 | $633,275 | $515,537 | $582,416 |
| Total challenges (cases) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Successful challenges | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |