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Graeme My authority did exactly the same and felt that it was actually in the interests of the individuals that we informed them of this and as the "team" involved are actually employed by that section I would have thought that they were only carrying out their workload and therefore access to that list should be OK. My authority actually used existing members of the team to send out letters - address labels were already available and a standard letter went out. Hope this helps. Doreen > -----Original Message----- > From: Graeme Shanks [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 03 May 2000 12:20 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Welfare Benefits > > The local authority I work for has recently set up a team to aid > identification of > individuals that are entitled to but not currently claiming welfare > benefit > (income support, disability living allowance, attendance allowance). > > An advertising campaign is to be run in the near future asking those that > feel > they may be entitled to claim unclaimed benefit to contact the Council. > > In addition to the advertising campaign the team have been given a list of > approx.. 1000 clients currently claiming housing benefits but not claiming > other welfare benefit they may be entitled to (Council Tax and Housing > Benefits > have already been registered under the 1984 Data Protection act). > > 1. Can the team use this list from the housing benefits system to contact > to > the individuals ? > The letter would be along the lines of "you may be able to claim ??? > benefits > if you want to set up an appointment please call .... or write to us at > ....". > > 2. If the individuals can be contacted can the list be passed to the new > team (within the authority) > or should the letter come from the housing benefits section? > > Thanks in anticipation, > Graeme ________________________________________________________________ This e-mail is privileged, confidential and subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use or disclosure of its contents is prohibited. The views expressed in this communication may not necessarily be the views held by the Scottish Borders Council. _________________________________________________________________ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%