Previous
National Insurance Carrier: SOA Software Development Process Improvement and Management
White Papers The client needed to provide agents with an intelligent interface that integrated critical independent systems, and to revamp legacy claims systems to expedite the claim resolution process. The transition from legacy to new technologies, though...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
National Insurance Carrier: Enterprise Integration/ESB Evaluation
White Papers A large insurance provider replacing its Commercial Lines Policy Administration systems realized the need for a cohesive Enterprise Integration Strategy. Due to the heterogeneity of their IT architecture, the client engaged LiquidHub to help define...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Insurance: OZ becomes a national cost-efficiency leader with IBM solution
White Papers Insurance companies are often associated with paperwork and slowed down by it. That was the case over four years ago with OZ Zorgverzekeringen (OZ), a nonprofit provider of health insurance for 615,000 citizens of southwest Holland.
[February 19, 2008, 5:48]
Select Business Solutions Case Study: American National Property & Casualty Company
White Papers American National Property & Casualty Company (ANPAC) incorporated in 1973 by American National Insurance Company, was created to serve the property and casualty insurance needs of the parent company's life insurance customers.
[May 26, 2006, 0:00]
Taiwan hands out 22 million ID cards
News The country's Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) adopted US-based Sun Microsystems' Java card technology primarily to prevent identity theft, according to a statement from the computing firm. Also, each card contains a microprocessor with...
[September 29, 2003, 9:40]
Taxation changes may hit IT sector
News The Treasury is aiming to tackle what it calls "disguised employment" by contractors who use a managed service company (MSC) to avoid paying the level of national insurance contributions (NICs) and PAYE that those in full employment would.
[January 19, 2007, 8:33]
Inland Revenue IT 'glitch' costs £15bn
News Problems in switching over to a new system meant up to a third of UK workers were not sent reminders for five years between 1997 and 2001 warning them they needed to top up their national insurance contributions.
[May 15, 2003, 12:12]
Government loses 25m confidential records
News Details on the discs, which were only password protected, included names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and bank and building society account details. Edward Leigh, the chair of the Public Accounts Committee, later said that...
[November 20, 2007, 16:38]
Organised crime 'will attack ID cards database'
News If the ID cards database is breached, people could find their iris scans and fingerprints - as well as personal data and national insurance numbers - stolen. Yesterday it was reported in The Times that more than 300,000 foreigners are given...
[May 18, 2006, 9:05]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Apart from staff saving National insurance, tax and VAT through buying a pc through their gross salary; companies saved up to £192 over 3 years in National Insurance through a reduced gross salary bill.
[March 23, 2006, 10:59]
Darling blames officials for data loss
News The discs include benefit records affecting 25 million people and 7.5 million families, and include names of recipients and children, dates of birth, bank and building society details and national insurance numbers.
[November 21, 2007, 7:16]
Siemens makes a million bringing computing home
News These employees have benefited by using their gross income to pay for their home PC, and Siemens has saved a total of £900,000 in national insurance contributions. This salary sacrifice benefits the employer, which doesn't have to pay national...
[April 16, 2004, 17:45]
Lost Standard Life CD was unencrypted
News Funds are paid into the accounts of individuals' pension providers by HMRC electronically, depending on the level of the National Insurance contributions people have made. The data contained on the disk included the surnames and initials of the...
[November 6, 2007, 11:03]
Outdated computers cause backlog for the taxman
News The backlog of cases will get worse due to the delayed transfer of processing to the National Insurance Recording System," the report said. The transfer of PAYE cases to the newer National Insurance Recording System (NIRS) has been put back twice...
[March 25, 2009, 14:05]
Ministry of Justice reports nine data breaches
News The data included names, dates of birth, addresses, offences and, in a fifth of cases, national-insurance numbers. In its resource accounts, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed three data losses, all of names, addresses and national...
[August 18, 2008, 8:38]
Will the Budget boost PC-employee scheme?
News It's a welcome and cost-effective initiative aimed to encourage computer ownership and Internet take-up in homes and, with the right scheme, both parties can make significant cost savings through tax and national insurance concessions.
[March 16, 2004, 13:20]
Budget to promote e-business
News Top employees will pay no income tax or national insurance on their options and be able to sell the shares at a reduced rate of capital gains tax. Meanwhile, firms will be able to give all employees up to £3,000 of shares free of income tax and...
[March 21, 2000, 13:41]
Decision coming soon in IR35 appeal
News This can be financially rewarding for the employer, who can avoid paying national insurance contributions and providing benefits such as sick pay and holidays. The contractor can also pay less national insurance on gross income by declaring some of...
[December 20, 2001, 12:55]
Contractors lose IR35 appeal
News It also warned that those affected by IR35 must pay all their tax and national insurance contributions by the end of January 2002. Such a scheme can be financially rewarding for the employer, who can avoid paying national insurance contributions...
[December 21, 2001, 10:55]
Watchdog: Protecting data is not 'rocket science'
News It emerged in Parliament on Tuesday that the National Audit Office had not in fact requested the names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and banking details lost by HMRC, but had just requested national insurance numbers.
[November 22, 2007, 13:43]
