- Purpose
- To enable the Department for Work and Pensions to verify births, deaths, marriage and civil partnership registration details via the Life Events Verification system for the exercise of its statutory functions in the detection and prevention of crime.
- Information sharing benefits
- To improve administration of social security functions relevant to claimant circumstances and benefit entitlement and for the detection, investigation and prevention of fraud and related offences.
- Disclosed information
- Births: System number; Registration district/sub-district; Administrative area where registered; Date of registration; Name(s) and forename(s); Child’s sex; Place of birth; Mother’s name, maiden name and previous married name, and place of birth; Father’s name and place of birth. Deaths: System number; Registration district/sub-district; Administrative area where registered; Date of registration; Date of birth; Sex; Address; Date of death. Marriages / Civil Partnerships: System number; Registration district/sub-district; Administrative area where registered; Date of registration; Date of marriage/civil partnership; Place of marriage/civil partnership; Surname and forename(s) of couple; Address(s) of couple
- Information sharing method
- Electronic Verification
- Contact
- freedom-of-information@dwp.gov.uk
- Start date
- 2026-08-25
- End date
- Review date
- 2027-08-25
- Retention period
- P24M
- Isa status
- Active
- Id
- 573
- Notes
- New agreement
- Updated
- 16 October 2026