Benefits department enters into agreement to support upgrades to digital service that underpins initiative launched three years ago to identify claimants to be reviewed for potential overpayment or other error The Department for Work and Pensions has signed a potential £15m deal for a supplie| PublicTechnology
PublicTechnology understands that the department's directors general are working on the rollout of tech programmes that senior leaders believe have ‘a high likelihood of being scalable into the overall business’ The Department for Work and Pensions is to progress its trials of generative arti| PublicTechnology
Update made to social security legislation to ensure that Universal Credit and Maternity Allowance services are notified after citizens use ‘Tell us Once’ service to inform departments of a death Ministers from the Department for Work and Pensions have tweaked benefits legislation with the in| PublicTechnology
Department has purchased three licences of automated ‘social media listening’ tool that will offers the ability to search for specified terms and flag up thousands of individuals’ posts each day In a bid to clamp down on benefit fraud, the Department for Work and Pensions has signed a deal fo| PublicTechnology
Shortly after department updated its personal data policies, minister discusses initiative to use automated tech to support digital services ‘with a human touch in a safe, ethical and considered way’ The Department for Work and Pensions is running a dedicated “lighthouse programme” to explore the| PublicTechnology