Records Kept By Dwp??

bargain_hunter77

This question is just out of curiosity really but how long can the DWP keep your personal details/records? (paperwork/medicals etc)....Can they share it with anyone else?

(I recently stopped claiming Income Support and am now working) - just wondered how long they kept all our records???

Thanks for any helpX

Hapless_2

I believe (info gained from someone in DWP) that they keep them for as long as they need to.

DWP can share the info with Inland Revenue and local council benefit offices. this is to combat fraud. I should imagine that they can share information with any relative government agency.

1. As Government moves to more joined-up working, and the information sharing that is needed to support this, we will be exploring how we might provide citizens with more information about which public sector bodies hold information and what they use it for. This acts both to reassure citizens and to support public service effectiveness in enabling people to play their part in ensuring that information held about them is accurate and up-to-date.

http://www.foi.gov.uk/sharing/information-sharing.pdf

Goggles47

Normally 14 months then destroyed. Totally covered by Data Protection so cannot give out information to outside organisations.

CIS

The information on the main computer systems is kept indefinetly

Hapless_2

Goggles47 wrote: »

Normally 14 months then destroyed. Totally covered by Data Protection so cannot give out information to outside organisations.

define outside organisations, they can share info with whoever they need to to prevent fraud activities.

stazi

Here's the DWP policy-
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/DWP-your-personal-information.pdf