We're blogging again after a quiet pre-election period.
We posted in February listing some of the services we were expecting to start using GOV.UK Verify before August 2015. This post provides an update on our plans.
Eleven of the services we listed as starting to use GOV.UK Verify early this year are now connected to the hub. Seven of these are available as public betas:
- Check or update your company car tax
- Do your Self assessment online
- Claim rural payments
- Claim for redundancy and monies owed
- Renew your tax credits online
- Claim a tax refund
- Help your friends or family with their tax
The remaining 4 are in private beta with small numbers of invited users.
Table: updated list of services we expect to start using GOV.UK Verify in the next 6 months
| Department | Service | Status | Total users / year | Users by November 2015 |
| HMRC | Check or update your company car tax | Connected February 2014; in public beta | 70k | 20k |
| Defra | Claim rural payments | Connected July 2014; in public beta | 100k-300k | 100k |
| HMRC | Do your self assessment online (limited trial) | Connected December 2014, in trial (limited numbers of people can choose to use GOV.UK Verify to access the self assessment service) | 3m | 50k |
| HMRC | Renew your tax credits online | Connected February 2015; in public beta | 3m | 1m |
| HMRC | Check your income tax estimate | Connected February 2015; in private beta | 2m | 80k |
| BIS / Insolvency Service | Claim for redundancy and monies owed | Connected February 2015; in public beta | 100k | 15k |
| HMRC | Help your friends or family with their tax | Connected March 2015; in public beta (this service currently supports users with two HMRC services and will expand across more services during summer) | - | User numbers will be a percentage of those accessing other HMRC services through this channel |
| HMRC | Claim a tax refund | Connected March 2015; in public beta | 95k | 30k |
| DWP | Log in to your universal credit digital account (trial) | Connected March 2015; in private beta | 10m | <1k |
| HMRC | Check your state pension | Connected April 2015; in private beta | 3m | <10k |
| HMRC | Apply for the marriage allowance | Connected April 2015; in private beta | 3m | 200k+ |
| DfT / DVLA | View your driving licence information | Due to connect by July 2015 | 1.5m | 125k |
| HMRC | Inheritance tax online | Due to connect by August 2015 | 80k | <5k |
| HMRC | Do your self assessment online (full service) | Due to connect by November 2015 | 3m | 2m+ |
12 comments
Comment by Michael Motkin posted on
Hi,
I wanted to ask why you are expecting such low numbers with universal tax credits?
Do you think most of the users will be self assessment like myself?
Comment by Jess McEvoy posted on
Hi Michael, thanks for your question.
The universal credit digital account is being initially offered to a small number of users as a trial so the team can learn and improve the journey before making it available more widely. As well as showing the number of users expected in the first six months we also show the eventual population of users for this service, which in this case is 10 million.
thanks
Comment by Michael Motkin posted on
Thank you Jess, what is the current estimate for this to be rolled out to all Universal Credit users?
Before or after March 2016?
Comment by Jess McEvoy posted on
Hi Michael
Universal Credit is a DWP service and I'll have to refer you to them about their plans to expand it. If you want to get in touch with DWP direct, their contact details can be found on this page:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions
thanks
Comment by Liam Duddy posted on
Hi,
When can I use GOV.UK Verify to claim Marriage Allowance?
Comment by Rebecca Hales posted on
Hi Liam
Thanks for your comment.
You can read about Marriage Allowance and other services joining GOV.UK Verify over the next six months here: https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2015/05/14/the-next-6-months-services-that-plan-to-start-using-gov-uk-verify-2/
Marriage Allowance is currently connected to GOV.UK Verify as a private beta, meaning it's being tested with a small number of users. You can register here to get an email from HMRC telling you when you will be able to claim: https://www.gov.uk/marriage-allowance
Comment by Jen Green posted on
Are there plans to expand this to local government?
Comment by Rebecca Hales posted on
Hi Jen
At this stage, we're prioritising building and scaling a service that works for users of central government services. We've written about identity assurance for local authorities here: https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2014/10/23/identity-assurance-for-local-authority-and-private-sector-services/
Comment by Sue posted on
Are you planning on using more UK based companies to assist with the roll out of GOV.UK Verify, as I would imagine that as the numbers all together for users are so high you would want to prevent any major outage across all areas? How do UK tech companies look at getting involved with the process.
Comment by Rebecca Hales posted on
Hi Sue
We completed our most recent procurement exercise for new certified companies earlier this year and you can read about the companies that will be joining GOV.UK Verify here: https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/25/procurement-2-new-identity-suppliers-to-join-gov-uk-verify/
In terms of cloud-based services (such as web hosting, site analytics or document collaboration tools) any tech company wishing to get involved with the public sector should look at joining the Digital Marketplace: https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/suppliers-guide
Comment by Peter Godfrey posted on
Hello
We run a teaching agency and would like ask UK citizens to go through the verify programme before we employ them
Is this possible?
Comment by Rebecca Hales posted on
Hi Peter
Thanks for your interest in GOV.UK Verify.
GOV.UK Verify is the new way to prove who you are online in order to safely government services like filing your tax or checking the information on your driving licence. At this stage we're prioritising building a scaling a service that works for users of central government services so, no, you wouldn't be able to use GOV.UK Verify for your teaching agency.
However, we are looking at the practicalities of private sector re-use via the Open Identity Exchange. If, as a company, you'd like to find out more about this discovery work, or get involved, you can visit http://oixuk.org/