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Changing Profile of Active Programmes
Each operating programme has been classified by one or more of eight primary purposes. These purposes are:
- Identifying people eligible for an entitlement but not currently claiming that entitlement (this might be a monetary benefit, such as medical subsidies, or a right, such as the ability to cast a vote);
- confirming people's eligibility or continuing eligibility for a benefit programme, or compliance with a requirement of a programme;
- detecting illegal behaviour (e.g. fraudulent or multiple claims, unreported income or assets, impersonation, omissions, unauthorised use, improper conduct, conflict of interest);
- locating people with a debt to a government agency;
- updating data in one set of records based on data in another set;
- detecting errors in programme administration (e.g. erroneous assessment of benefit amounts, mutiple invoicing);
- auditing data quality; and
- monitoring grants and contract award processes.
Classification of Data Matching Activities 1997/98 and 2007/08
The following figures display the changes in programme purposes over the last ten years (1997/98 and 2007/08). During this ten year period, the number of active matching programmes has risen from 12 to 46 programmes. 'Confirming eligibility' and 'detecting illegal behaviour' continue to be the two most common purposes for information matching, although most other purposes have become increasingly common over the last ten years.
