- Purpose
- To provide benefit eligibility checks to support energy suppliers meet their obligation to verify the accuracy of WHDS Broader Group rebates made to domestic customers in Scotland.
- Information sharing benefits
- Information sharing between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and licensed energy suppliers to provide benefit eligibility verification checks in support of rebates made to domestic energy customers under the WHDS (Broader Group) for Scotland.
- Disclosed information
- The energy supplier will share a unique identifier, name, date of birth and address for each customer. DWP will return the unique identifier only, with a flag which will indicate the result of the eligibility check (i.e. matched/not matched/unverified).
- Information sharing method
- Encrypted Email Transfer
- Contact
- data.protectionofficer@dwp.gov.uk
- Start date
- 2024-09-30
- End date
- 2025-03-31
- Review date
- Retention period
- P18M
- Isa status
- Complete
- Id
- 412
- Notes
- New agreement
- Updated
- 17 April 2025