This notice provides details about how we may use and/or re-use your personal data to identify benefits and in-kind support you might be entitled to, so that we can make you aware of what support is available.

The information is being collected for the following purposes:

1. To make sure you know what benefits and in-kind support you are entitled to.
2. To help you claim that support and maximise your income.
3. To enable us to monitor, assess and understand how successful we are in achieving those objectives.

The legal basis for each purpose is set out below:

We collect and process a range of personal information about you to assess your entitlement to Council Tax Reduction, Housing Benefit, Discretionary Housing Payments, Free School Meals and Clothing Grants, Education Maintenance Allowance, Scottish Welfare Fund and Household Support Fund (this list is non exhaustive). This may include:

• Your name
• Your date of birth
• Your National Insurance Number
• Your marital status
• Your partner's name
• Their date of birth
• Their National Insurance Number
• Details of other people in the household (ie children or other adults who live with you including their dates of birth, National Insurance number, income and circumstances)
• Your address
• Contact telephone, email
• Bank details
• Information about your income, capital (savings, investments and property) and expenditure

More detailed information is included within the relevant privacy notices.

This privacy notice concerns the re-use of that information to identify your potential entitlement to other benefits and in-kind support, and to help you claim those to maximise your income.

We may share your information with other teams within the Council to ensure that you are given the best opportunity to maximise your entitlement to benefits and in-kind support. This will be proportionate to what is needed to allow those teams to support you.

We do not transfer your information outwith the UK.

Data re-used in this way will only be kept for as long as necessary to offer you support to maximise your income and to allow us to evaluate how successful we have been in achieving that objective.

This privacy notice concerns the re-use of data you have already provided us with to allow us to assess your entitlement to benefits we administer. You do not have to provide this information to us in the first instance, but if you do not then we will be unable to assess your entitlement to those benefits. If you do not want us to re-use your data in this way, please let us know by contacting revenues1@falkirk.gov.uk.