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National Fraud Initiative

Mortality Screening

Since 1996 the Audit Commission has run the NationalFraud Initiative (NFI). This matches electronic data toprevent and detect fraud. So far, NFI has identied morethan 650 million in fraud and overpayments and theinitiative has attracted international recognition.

Do you need:

A cost effective way of identifying pensioners that are deceased?

A proven and reliable data matching system?

Accurate matching using National Insurance numbers? Matching that includes both deaths in the United Kingdom and abroad?

A way of identifying deferred pensioners that have died?

A secure way of sending data to a trusted organisation?


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If the answer is Yes, then the Audit Commissions National Fraud Initiative

(NFI) could help.

NFI is already the UKs premier public sector fraud detection tool and it is

now expanding to offermortality screening services to all private sector

pension schemes.

A cost effective way of identifying your pensioners that are

deceased

Use of advanced data matching techniques that can replace the time

and expense of sending life certication forms to verify pensioners

existence.

A nominal fee based on the number of records submitted.

Access to a full list of your deceased pensioners through a secure webbased application.

A proven and reliable data matching system

All public sector pension schemes and some major blue chip company

pension schemes have been using NFI for over 10 years.

Pension schemes taking part in NFI 2008/09 identied fraud and

overpayments of more than 87 million. The largest schemes have identied hundreds of cases of fraudulent

overpayments, some of which run into tens of thousands of pounds.

Many of these cases had been running for years and overpayments

could have continued to increase had they not been highlighted by NFI.


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Accurate matching using National Insurance numbers

The NFImortality screening service is unique as it matches data to

Department for Works and Pensions records, which include National

Insurance numbers, to give an accurate match.

Matching which includes both deaths in the United Kingdom and

abroad A unique feature of the process is that it can identify deaths of UK

citizens abroad as well as deaths in the UK.

Identify deferred pensioners that have died

By matching deferred pensioner data we can help you identify any that

are deceased so that you can locate family members and dependants

to make payments to them.

A secure way of submitting data to a trusted organisation

A secure web based system is used that applies automatic encryption.

The matches are hosted on the same secure system.

Password controlled access using the same computer architecture as

online banking.

Compliant with the information security standard ISO27001. NFI is accredited against Her Majestys Government information

assurance standards.


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Audit Commission

1st FloorMillbank Tower

Millbank

London

SW1P 4HQ

Telephone: 0844 798 1212

Fax: 0844 798 2945Textphone (minicom): 0844 798 2946

www.audit-commission.gov.uk

How to take part

Please contact us to nd out when we can complete your screening.

Detailed instructions will be available on the NFI web page (www.

audit-commission.gov.uk/n). The instructions include the detailed dataspecications and data format guidance.

Fees

The fees are dependant on the number of pensioners (members) in a pension

scheme. The fee ranges can be viewed on the NFI website at

http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/nprivatepensions

Need more information?

For more information or to express an interest in participating in the next

round of matching please:

E-mail the NFI Team at [email protected];

Visit our website at

http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/nprivatepensions or

Leave a message on the NFI voicemail service on 0844 798 2222 (localrate call) and a member of the Team will call you back.

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