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Consent issues
Something for stakeholders maybe?
When i ring JCP the robot is checking ID now and it’s asking for the bank sort code by rote. Obvs in the vast majority of cases I haven’t got that so am being redirected. Maybe if it was asking for information consistent with the implicit consent guidance it would be less bother for them as well as us?
Is that the universal credit helpline Dan? And do you mean the automated stuff before you get through? If you can give me a bit more info I’ll certainly raise it
Is that the universal credit helpline Dan? And do you mean the automated stuff before you get through? If you can give me a bit more info I’ll certainly raise it
It’s ESA, they’ve introduced an automated process at the beginning of the call where the robot asks for ID info; NINo, whether the claimant receives HB, and… bank sort code. Where I can’t provide the sort code the call gets diverted to someone who tells me “you’ve been diverted here because you couldn’t satisfy security” then goes on to answer my enquiry.
I’m guessing a lot of claimants won’t necessarily know their sort code offhand, so seems a strange one to put it - i’ll take it up…