Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00832:section:7:p2
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Provision Reference: s 7 (pt 2/3)
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the source agency particulars of the discrepancy.
STEP 5
 12. The matching agency carries out payment matching by matching the following data given by assistance agencies in Step 1:
 (a) family identity data; and
 (b) if it is necessary to do so—personal assistance data;
to find out:
 (c) if personal assistance is being, or has been, given to, or is being claimed by, persons who might not be, or might not have been, entitled to it; and
 (d) if personal assistance is not being, or has not been, given to, or claimed by, persons who might be, or might have been, entitled to it.
 13. Where the matching of family identity data given by assistance agencies in Step 1 cannot identify a person for the purposes of paragraph 12, the matching agency matches TFN data given to it in Step 1 with the data being matched under that paragraph.
 14. The matching agency carries out income matching of persons by using any identification number for the purposes of personal assistance of a person to match:
 (a) income data of the person given to it by assistance agencies; and
 (b) except where the matching agency has, under paragraph 11, given particulars of a discrepancy in data about the person to a source agency, the tax income data of the person given to the matching agency in earlier steps;
to find out if there are any inconsistencies in the income data of the person.
 14A. If the source agency and the matching agency have agreed that this paragraph applies, the following subparagraphs apply:
 (a) if the matching agency thinks that any results of a payment or income matching appear to be results to which paragraph 15 applies, the matching agency gives a sample to the source agency;
 (b) the source agency tests the sample;
 (c) if the source agency thinks the sample may be wrong, and that the error may be corrected by adjusting an algorithm used by the matching agency, the source agency suggests the adjustment;
 (d) the matching agency makes the adjustment and repeats the relevant parts of the matching;
 (e) subject to section 9, these subparagraphs apply as often as necessary until the matching is complete;
 (f) if the source agency is an assistance agency, information exchanged under this paragraph may include the return of TFN data from the matching agency to the source agency;
 (g) the source agency must destroy the sample as soon as practicable after the matching is complete.

                 STEP 6
 15. The matching agency gives to each source agency the results of matching under earlier steps that are of concern to that other agency and have not been given to the other agency in an