The Australian Government Department of Human Services
NOTICE OF A DATA MATCHING PROGRAM
Under the current Terms and Conditions between the Australian Business Register and the Federal Department of Human Services, the Australian Business Register is provided on a monthly basis. This includes the name and address of the business owners and company registration details.
This program has been named the New Compliance Data Sources and enables the Department of Human Services to identify social welfare recipients who may not have disclosed income and assets to the Department of Human Services.
- The details will be electronically matched with specific Department of Human Services data holdings, to identify non-compliance with income or other reporting obligations. Records exceeding 5,000 individuals will be matched.
- The Department of Human Services, Centrelink Master Program data base holds approximately 7 million unique records. The Australian Business Register data base holds in excess of 10 million unique Australian Business Number (ABN) records. Records exceeding 5,000 individuals will be matched.
- The approximate match figure will be significant, though based on investigation criteria we expect to examine less than 10,000 records, of which less than 1,000 cases are likely to be referred for review or investigation.
A document describing this program has been prepared in consultation with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. A copy of this document is available from:
Intelligence Section
Louisa Lawson Building
25 Cowlishaw Street
Greenway ACT
The Federal Department of Human Services complies with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s Guidelines on Data Matching in Commonwealth Administration which includes standards for data matching to protect the privacy of individuals and the security of information.