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HMRC already receives details on earnings from companies on an annual basis through the pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) system.
Meanwhile, the DWP holds information on payments made and declared earnings of all benefit recipients.
But there is currently no system to link the two. Under the new proposals, the banks will be ordered to allow officials access to details of payments made through the banking system.
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Not access to the accounts, a subset of information, payments going into them.
I'm not overly fond of this - again it's quite authoritarian and illiberal.