Home Affairs Data

A key data source is population register data from Home Affairs which includes data on the status of beneficiaries.

HSS beneficiary data can be cross referenced against Home Affairs data to determine whether beneficiaries are alive, what their current marital status is and in some cases, access data on children.

At present housing authorities do not have access to Home Affairs data and must purchase this data from credit bureaus or other third parties.

Maturity Roadmap: suggestion for improvement

The NDHS should negotiate an MOU with Home Affairs to enable all housing authorities to access Home Affairs data through an API. This will allow the housing authority to request and extract required data on beneficiaries in a specified format, and facilitate automated uploading of the data into a database.