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  • Privacy Notice for Debt Management

    Topics:
    • Benefits and pensions, 
    • DfC corporate, 
    • Benefits, 
    • Privacy notice

    Date published: 10 May 2022

    This privacy notice from the Department for Communities (DfC) tells our customers and service users how we process your personal data in accordance with our legal obligations under the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR).

    The information is processed to support the recovery of: 

    • Social Security Benefit overpayments
    • Tax credit overpayments
    • Advances and Hardship payments
    • Welfare Supplementary payments
    • Social Fund and Discretionary Support loans
    • Social Security Benefit and Health Service charges associated with compensation claims
    • Arrears owed for rent and electricity charges and court fines
    • Support for Mortgage Interest Loans
    • Benefit fraud referred by single investigations
    • Fines on behalf of the Department of Justice

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    • Privacy Notice for Debt ManagementAdobe PDF (188.41 KB)

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