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The Audit commission's National Fraud Initiative (NFI)
is a computerised data matching exercise to detect housing
benefit, payroll and other frauds perpetrated upon local
authorities, NHS bodies and other public and private
sector organisations.
Run every two years, here is a summary of NFI 2006;
• 1333 participating authorities.
• 4994 submitted data sets.
• 230 million rows of data in total.
• 13.3 million matches to possible frauds.
New for NFI 2006 was the introduction of online results delivery, comprising
of a secure web based application handling up to 30,000
concurrent sessions from 5,029 distinct users.
NFI 2008 will see further increases in the number
of datasets causing exponential growth to the
size of the project.
This project has saved in excess of £300m of
public money.
http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/nfi
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