Low Income Family Tracker (LIFT) Privacy Notice
LIFT is a system that can facilitate early identification of households who may benefit from targeted support around the cost of living and financial wellbeing. Fife Council aim to provide support to these households to prevent them getting into crisis.
In order to help households in need, Fife Council may use the personal information provided by you as part of your Council Tax, Housing Benefit, DWP Benefits (including Universal Credit), Tax Credits, Rent or Council Tax Arrears, Discretionary Housing Payment, or applications to the Scottish Welfare Fund, to assess your eligibility for any additional benefits, grants or support you may be entitled to.
We have a statutory function to carry out the above duties under various legislation including the following:
- Local Government Finance Act 1992
- Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975
- Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 1992
- Social Security Act 1998
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992
- Child Support Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 - Sections 68-71 and Schedule 7
- Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016
- Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 - Section 115
- Human Rights Act 1998 - Schedule 1 - The Articles
- National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992
- Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide (CRAG)
- GDPR Article 6(1)(e)
Fife Council collects and processes a range of personal information about you. This may include:
- Your name, address and contact details, including email address and telephone number, date of birth, IP address and timestamp
- Ownership and/or tenancy details for your domestic property(s)
- Ownership and/or tenancy details for non-domestic property(s)
- Partner details
- Information about other people living in your household including children
- Employment and banking details
- Income details
- Savings and capital details
Fife Council will collect the above information in a number of ways including application forms, passports and other identity documents, correspondence from you, customer interviews, meetings and other assessment activities.
Any personal data you provide will be stored in a range of Fife Councils IT systems.
We provide your information to our suppliers to enable us to deliver a service to you. We may also share information with the Department of Work and Pensions in relation to Housing Benefit.
We obtain information about you from the Department of Work and Pensions and publicly accessible sources such Registers of Scotland and the Voters Roll, as well as Registered Social Landlords, Private Landlords, Care Providers, the Scottish Social Security Agency and other Council Services.
Fife Council and the DWP work together and share information often to provide a number of services. Fife Council and the DWP are joint data controllers for services such as Housing Benefit.
You are obliged to provide Fife Council with data as part of our statutory function as defined in the list above of appropriate legislation. In the event that we did not request and use this information then it would not be possible to carry out our statutory functions.
Automated information relating to benefit entitlement is received from the Department for Work and Pensions and is used to amend entitlement to Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction.
