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Take-up work in the world of GDPR.

Mike Hughes
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Senior welfare rights officer - Salford City Council Welfare Rights Service

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https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/your-data/why-and-how-we-use-your-data/your-data-housing-benefit-council-tax-reduction-and-educational-entitlements-and-benefits

So, above is an example of a privacy statement which suggests very clearly that, provided the privacy statement says so, pro-active take-up work using data collected for benefits is perfectly possible.

I’m very keen on persuading our Benefits team to adopt something similar as it solves so many issues (think mixed age couple and PC/UC; PC take-up in general etc.).

Thoughts?