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Dan_Manville
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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?

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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

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Daphne - 08 February 2019 03:51 PM

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.

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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…