When we identify a mismatch between the employer name declared by the applicant and what has been verified by Konfir, you will now be alerted to this via the Konsole.
A 'minor discrepancy' is typically returned when the two employer names are similar, and a 'major discrepancy' is typically returned when the two employer names are completely different.
When applicants return to Konfir from Government Gateway after connecting to HMRC, it can sometimes take a few seconds for us to receive the HMRC data. We've now added a countdown to the loading screen to make this process better known by applicants and to ensure they know that nothing has gone wrong.
When we identify a mismatch between the start or the end date declared by the applicant and what has been verified by Konfir, you will now be alerted to this via the Konsole.
A 'minor discrepancy' is returned for any difference of 28 days or less, and a 'major discrepancy' is returned for any difference of over 28 days.
We've released a new Gap in Employment Insight, informing you when someone is likely to be in Education. This is possible through automated idnetification of student loan paymentsreceived by the applicant.
We're starting to roll out the first version of our Self Employment verification solution. Now, you can send a new activity type 'Self Employment'. When a period of self employment is sent, we'll ask the applicant which accounting platform they use to manage their finances and if they can connect it.
To initiate the connection with HMRC, we need to first check the applicant is a UK taxpayer. We do this by sending information such as the National Insurance Number and Date of Birth to HMRC.
If we cannot find the applicant with the details provided, they will now be able to re-enter their NI Number and DOB in the Konfir UX.
When Open Banking is used as one of the data sources to verify an Employment on the Timeline, we now return the Latest Payment Date for that employment, alongside the Start Date and the End Date.
We now allow applicants to provide their National Insurance Number up to 2 times before taking them to the next data source if we cannot successfully match it with the Payroll provider.
If an applicant can't, or doesn't want to connect to HMRC, we will ask them what happened.
If the applicant selects "I don't want to connect it" or "other", we'll now show them an extra page that provides additional information on why the HMRC connection is useful & security at Konfir.
We identified that data reported by some employers to HMRC were duplicated. This was particularly common among NHS Trusts. We've now released functionality to merge any duplicate employments from the same employer from HMRC.