- 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.
- Information sharing benefits
- Information sharing between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Co-Operative Energy Limited to provide benefit eligibility verification checks in support of rebates made to domestic energy customers under the WHDS (Broader Group).
- Disclosed information
- Co-Operative Energy Limited 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
- 2019-08-15
- End date
- 2020-03-31
- Review date
- Retention period
- P1M
- Isa status
- Complete
- Id
- 46
- Notes
- no change
- Updated
- 06 November 2024