Calls for legal review of UK welfare screening system which factors in age

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : However, its chief executive, Wajid Shafiq, has now admitted it weighs a claimant's age, which is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.
40% : Xantura, a UK technology firm that provides "risk-based verification" to about 80 councils and has assessed hundreds of thousands of claimants, previously said it did not feed its algorithm any information protected under anti-discrimination laws.
37% : Xantura insists its use of age helps reduce fraud and error, speeds up the majority of applications and does not breach the Equality Act, citing a legal exception allowing financial services providers to account for age.

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