- Purpose
- To identify whether there is potential fraud in the Help to Buy Scheme; relating to the overinflaton of income (fraud by misrepresentation) and the failure to declare existing property ownership at the point of application (fraud by omission).
- Information sharing benefits
- This information sharing agreement will help Homes England to identify any fraud in the Help to Buy Scheme; and to qualify the nature of this fraud. In doing so; Homes England will be able to assess compliance and review policies for preventative purposes only.
- Disclosed information
- Data on earnings and income; on self-assessment; on benefits and credits; and on property ownership will be disclosed by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to Homes England.
- Information sharing method
- Government Secure Email
- Contact
- Not Available
- Start date
- 2018-09-06
- End date
- 2019-05-31
- Review date
- 2019-01-17
- Retention period
- P3M
- Isa status
- Complete
- Id
- 2
- Notes
- no change