Saturday, July 07, 2012

Data matching and over-payments - good and bad

The Ministry of Social Development has improved its detection of benefit  over-payments by data matching with Corrections, Housing NZ, IRD, ACC and Internal Affairs. The results:




table IS.3: Data-matching cases completed, and overpayments identified
Financial year1 Number of cases completed Overpayments identified – amount ($)
2006/2007 39,123 19,012,850
2007/2008 67,838 31,316,452
2008/2009 54,582 20,007,833
2009/2010 74,030 27,870,841
2010/2011 106,408 34,293,370
Note
  1. Financial years ended 30 June.
Both a good and a bad result. Good because the over-payments are being identified and bad because there are so many of them. One other positive aspect is that as more over-payments are uncovered the average amount is dropping.

According to the report;

92% of current clients with balances owed are repaying on average $14.32 a week

This repayment applies to all balances owed which might include legitimate advances.
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2 comments:

  1. S. Beast8:10 AM

    Once again, it's all common sense stuff and applied a little too late. I bet nobody is paying back interest on that money. I also bet nobody lost their HNZ house.

    With the capability of computers one would think they could do this stuff almost automatically.

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  2. Anonymous8:39 AM

    More efficient data matching is around the corner. These debt figures will be blown out of the water by the new process.

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