The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) and the Department of Human Services (DHS-Centrelink) are working together to target welfare recipients who are fraudulently claiming social security payments or committing migration fraud.
DIBP will release more than 5000 individual records to DHS–Centrelink for data matching purposes. These records will be electronically matched against DHS–Centrelink data holdings to identify non-compliance and fraud through declarations regarding relationship status and details. DHS–Centrelink will provide results to DIBP where a match has occurred. The collected data will be used to identify non-compliance and fraud, to be investigated by the relevant Departments.
The partner visa data matching programme will begin in mid-2015 and run for 12 months.
More information regarding the data matching programme can be found here.