The term 'claim' does not appear in council tax discount law. This discount is not 'claimed' in the same sense that benefits are. I pointed out to the Audit Commission that its use of the term 'claim' did not reflect the legal position. It replied that this was 'mere pedantry', that the words used to describe the discount did not matter, and that it was irrelevant as this was not how the exercise works.
If whoever wrote this had read the material in what appears to be a 'pop up' asserting, once again utterly falsely, that the comparison between council tax data sets and the full electoral register provided evidence of two inconsistent claims, they were probably not telling the truth. For, clearly, this is, in the minds of anybody foolish enough to believe what it says on the NFI secure web site, precisely how the exercise works. One claim or the other has to be false. More junk, more inconsistent nonsense from Audit Commission staff who appear not to be au fait with their own documentation or the law.
This explains why people are getting taken off the electoral register as a result of this match.
Some clown thinks that the same people should appear on both data sets. Give that man some proper training.
'Minimal' interference with the right to vote! Who says so? Oh yes, Clive Lewis. Perhaps he should do some research into what is actually happening and think again!