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Scaling up GOV.UK Verify to help during coronavirus

Posted by: The GDS Digital Identity Team, Posted on: 11 May 2020 - Categories: Identity Assurance

GOV.UK Verify scaled up its capacity recently to meet increased application numbers. Here the Digital Identity team explains how they approached the challenge.

GOV.UK Verify’s role in HMRC’s highest Self Assessment peak

Posted by: Kirsty Armstrong - former Engagement Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 30 July 2019 - Categories: Identity Assurance

This year, HMRC saw their busiest Self Assessment peak and the highest number of tax returns made online. Here’s how GDS and HMRC worked together to prepare for the peak.

Improving the government’s identity standards

Posted by: Tom Hughes - Senior Content Designer, Posted on: 22 May 2019 - Categories: Identity Assurance

The government identity standards help public and private sector organisations know that their users are who they say they are. This minimises fraud and error that can cost organisations, and the taxpayer, significant amounts of money. In this post, we talk about the work we're doing to improve the standards and make them easier to use.

Keeping GOV.UK Verify secure from identity crime and fraud

Posted by: The Identity Standards and Fraud Team, Posted on: 17 April 2019 - Categories: Identity Assurance

We are expanding our security work to keep GOV.UK Verify safe from identity crime and fraud. Find out what we’re doing to protect our users and to help save the government money.

The future of digital identity

Posted by: Lisa Barrett - former Director for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 25 March 2019 - Categories: Identity Assurance

As the recently appointed Director of Digital Identity at the Government Digital Service, it’s my role to shape the role of GOV.UK Verify in the future. It’s a big challenge and one I feel privileged to have joined. Here’s what I’ve been up to so far and my priorities for the near future.

GOV.UK Verify: understanding who can be verified

Posted by: Michael Clark and Kyran Dale, Posted on: 25 January 2016 - Categories: Identity Assurance

We’ve made a tool that shows what proportion of the public will be able to use GOV.UK Verify over the coming months as one of the targets for GOV.UK Verify is to hit 90% demographic coverage by April.