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.

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

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD05-HQ-C06--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

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.