Claim LD05-HQ-C06 (v1.0)

DWP’s Universal Credit Advances model selects claims for additional fraud review while the final decision remains human; the reviewer is not shown the risk rating or told that the referral was model-generated.

Research opportunities this claim motivates

What this claim leaves open for research. Each is a hypothesis about a gap, not a finding.

Does telling reviewers a case was picked by a risk model change what they decide?The DWP Universal Credit Advances reviewer is not shown the risk rating or told the referral was model-generated; this is one of the review designs the experiment compares. The claim does not say whether final decisions are biased, and neither will this study for that system.

Provenance and status

Claim type: FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (as printed: “ELIGIBLE”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: Claim that final human decisions are biased or unbiased
Source (field 6, as printed): DWP Fairness Assessment 2025; DWP Effectiveness Assessment 2026; ATRS record
Source type (field 7): GOVERNMENT_AUDIT_OR_EVALUATION, GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY (as printed: “Official evaluation / government transparency”)
Institutional position: Government
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): RAPIDLY_MATURING (as printed: “RAPIDLY MATURING”)
Recorded date: 2026-09-25
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD05-HQ-C06.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“DWP Fairness Assessment 2025” → SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-FAIRNESS-2025--v1.0 — DWP, Universal Credit Advances Model — Fairness Assessment, 17 July 2025; class GOVERNMENT_AUDIT_OR_EVALUATION (explicit public provenance pin)
“DWP Effectiveness Assessment 2026” → SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-EFFECTIVENESS-2026--v1.0 — DWP, Effectiveness Assessment of Universal Credit Advances Model, 9 July 2026; class GOVERNMENT_AUDIT_OR_EVALUATION (explicit public provenance pin)
“ATRS record” → SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-ATRS-RECORD--v1.0 — UK Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard record — DWP Universal Credit Advances model; class GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)

Read the originals

SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-FAIRNESS-2025: open the original
SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-EFFECTIVENESS-2026: open the original
SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-ATRS-RECORD: open the original

All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD05-HQ-C06	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	DWP’s Universal Credit Advances model selects claims for additional fraud review while the final decision remains human; the reviewer is not shown the risk rating or told that the referral was model-generated.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	B — Decision support vs automation	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	DWP Fairness Assessment 2025; DWP Effectiveness Assessment 2026; ATRS record	source_ids: SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-FAIRNESS-2025, SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-EFFECTIVENESS-2026, SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-ATRS-RECORD
7	SOURCE TYPE	Official evaluation / government transparency	classes: GOVERNMENT_AUDIT_OR_EVALUATION, GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Government	—
9	SCOPE	UK Universal Credit Advances, 2024–26	—
10	DESIGN	Production audit/evaluation	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	UC Advance requests; exact N varies by period	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	UC Advances ML model; period-specific live versions	—
13	COMPARATOR	Random control + human final review	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Model determines referral; human reviewer blind to score/model referral	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Separation of algorithmic selection from human determination	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Claim that final human decisions are biased or unbiased	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Government self-evaluation; version changes	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	NAO audit; period-specific DWP assessments	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	UK/English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Referral creates extra evidence burden/delay	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D5, D4a, L-A, R-1	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Workflow redesign exposing/altering score/referral visibility	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE	state: ELIGIBLE
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D5 (DOMAIN); D4a (SUB_AREA); L-A (LENS); R-1 (LENS)

Cited by Living Debate versions

LD-05 v0.1

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 4d66fb4821fbd6f859278427a1dce2bcc1397a997dff69e4494e7c9989a2d6b6.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID 1WkAv7jmWIrr1GBmYSv66jDc8m222Yd9z; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified ; block “ENTRY 06 — LD05-HQ-C06” SHA-256 3cbd53ec87a88ab9d7c099a6f515ce00737fe9c23f84b0f488de63e6f4b675b1; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/r04-ld05-claim-ledger-v1.0.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R04 — LD-05 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-FAIRNESS-2025--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 06 — LD05-HQ-C06 cites "DWP Fairness Assessment 2025"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #37 Source inventory): ledger C06/C07 fields 6–8 ("Official evaluation"); Batch 02 §1; KEY EVIDENCE.
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-EFFECTIVENESS-2026--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 06 — LD05-HQ-C06 cites "DWP Effectiveness Assessment 2026"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #37 Source inventory): ledger C06/C07 fields 6–8; Batch 02 §1; KEY EVIDENCE.
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-ATRS-RECORD--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 06 — LD05-HQ-C06 cites "ATRS record"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #37 Source inventory): ledger C06 ("ATRS record"; "government transparency"); Batch 02 §1 ("Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard entry, current through 2026").
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-FAIRNESS-2025--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-EFFECTIVENESS-2026--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD05-DWP-UC-ATRS-RECORD--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record.