Improve the accuracy, security and convenience of your Right to Rent checks with the HooYu identity verification platform.
In December 2021, the Home Office and Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) announced that from April 2022, landlords and lettings agents would be able to use Digital Identity Service Providers (IDSPs) to complete the identity screening elements of tenant Right to Rent checks.
With the ending, on September 30th 2022, of the temporary remote measures brought in during the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses now need to adopt new working rules on UK Right to Rent checks.
From October 1st 2022, the remote measures put in place during the pandemic will come to an end. If you conduct Right to Rent checks, you will need switch to using a digital identity service provider (IDSP) to provide your digital Right to Rent identity screening checks, or return to manual, in-person checks of hard copy identity documents.
Digital checks have many advantages over manual identity screening.
Checking applicants’ Right to Rent status manually can be laborious, time-consuming, costly and inconvenient – for both businesses and applicants. Digital checking has many advantages over manual identity screening. It is faster, more convenient and more accurate.
HooYu has been certified against standards set in the UK government Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF) to provide digital identity screening for Right to Work, Right to Rent and criminal record (DBS) checks. That means all areas of our governance, systems, controls and technology have been audited and reviewed and found to be robust, effective and safe.
By focusing on three key factors, HooYu ID Screen is engineered to make identity verification easy for both employers and service users.
Although not compulsory, the Home Office recommends that businesses use a certified IDSP to provide their digital identity checks - that ensures a provider meets all the standards and guidance laid out in the Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework. But what else do you need to look for?
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