Fraud Prevention: The Government hires Accenture for 2.16 million to combat Social Security fraud

Fraud Prevention: The Government hires Accenture for 2.16 million to combat Social Security fraud

 

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Fictitious companies and fake freelancers will be among the priorities.

 

The General Treasury of Social Security (TGSS), dependent on the Ministry of José Luis Escrivá, has awarded Accenture a contract worth just over 2.16 million Euros to help it combat fraud in Social Security, mainly in outbreaks such as fictitious companies and false self-employed workers.

The fraud prevention contract, which has been developed through an open procedure, was published a few days ago in the Official State Gazette (BOE), although it was formalized on November 5, 2020.

 

Through this fraud prevention award, Accenture will provide strategic consulting services for the maintenance and development of the model to combat Social Security fraud within the scope of the TGSS.

 

As stated in the technical specifications of the fraud prevention contract to which Europa Press has had access, it includes the establishment of systems, based on data analysis, that allows the design and implementation of new controls to verify the correct execution of the obligations of companies and citizens in matters of affiliation, contribution, and collection, and their possible breaches.

 

Accenture will collaborate with the TGSS in the maintenance, development, and updating of the fraud prevention model for two years, and will assist in the planning of tasks; in monitoring and control mode; in the definition of profiles and behaviour patterns, and the training of the officials assigned to this task.

 

The fraud prevention model will enhance the observation of the most important sources of fraud at all times and the prevention of it during the management of membership, contributions, and collection.

 

Fraud Detection - Likewise, it will promote the early detection of possible fraud in the field of Social Security benefits, with continuous monitoring and control of the results.

 

Fictitious companies and false self-employed, among the priorities

 

The Social Security states in one of the specifications of the contract that, within the sources of fraud, priority must be given to the fight against organized fraud; the fraud prevention of delinquency, defining patterns of fraud based on those companies that in recent years failed to comply with their payment obligations, and the early fraud detection of fictitious companies without activity in terms of benefits, as well as fraudulent registration of workers in real companies with activity, including the detection of irregular situations in the Self-Employed Regime.

 

Fraud Detection: It will also be a priority to identify false self-employed workers (workers who are actually salaried workers but who improperly fit into the Self-Employed Regime to pay fewer contributions) and the detection of fraud situations in the field of the digital economy.