- Purpose
- nformation sharing between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Ovo & Ovo (S) Electricity Ltd to provide benefit eligibility verification checks in support of rebates made to domestic energy customers under the WHDS (Broader Group).
- Information sharing benefits
- nformation sharing between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Ovo & Ovo (S) Electricity Ltd to provide benefit eligibility verification checks in support of rebates made to domestic energy customers under the WHDS (Broader Group).
- 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
- 2020-10-05
- End date
- 2021-03-31
- Review date
- Retention period
- P1M
- Isa status
- Complete
- Id
- 77
- Notes
- no change
- Updated
- 06 November 2024