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If you want to claim Universal Credit you must verify your identity. This guide for claimants and people supporting them explains how to do that.
Good Practice Guide (GPG) 45 helps you decide how to check someone's identity.
Armilla Verified is Armilla’s third-party verification of AI-powered products. It empowers AI vendors and enterprises alike to assure the quality and reliability of their AI solutions.
Clarifying existing practice for verifying deaths outside of hospitals and providing a framework for safe verification of death during the coronavirus emergency.
We’re working to help people securely prove who they are without having to rely on physical documents.
A wholesale dealer in Great Britain may import Qualified Person certified medicines from the European Economic Area if certain checks are made by the ‘Responsible Person (import)’
Find out about the verification checks and what to expect during a visit if you have applied for verification and paid your fee for the Scheme.
Information from the Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST), including the database of police protective standards.
Guidance for completing forms ID1: Certificate of identity for a private individual, and ID2: Certificate of identity for a body corporate.
Find out about the Spirit Drinks Verification Scheme if you produce a UK spirit drink with a protected Geographical Indication.
Case study from Advai.
Find out how to apply for verification and what happens if you do not.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HEFA) oversees the use of gametes and embryos in fertility treatment and research. It licenses fertility clinics and centres carrying out in vitro fertilisation (IVF), other assisted conception procedures and human embryo research. HFEA...
Why CAPTCHAs are problematic and should not be used in government services.
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