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Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21604 on Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence, whether her Department has taken steps to inform benefits claimants that machine

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
20 Jan 2025
Answer
20 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21604 on Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence, whether her Department has taken steps to inform benefits claimants that machine

  2. 20 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The DWP Personal Information Charter explains to benefit claimants how we use Machine Learning to help detect and prevent fraud and error.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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