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Program fraud detection for Unify

A staff-facing integrity console that turns Unify's historical application corpus into reviewer-ready signals for coordinated fraud, synthetic identities, and document/payment anomalies without automating denials.

Grant Alignment

What we can show today

Historical pattern learning from prior benefit applications
Coordinated-ring review with evidence and case ownership
Human review path with no automatic adverse action
Existing corpus
450,000

benefit applications available for pattern learning

Operating footprint
16 states

program history to ground cross-program fraud signals

Adverse-action guardrail
0

automatic denials from model flags

Flagged Applications
2
pending review
Analysis Runs
2
in current window
Active Vectors
3
highest-yield detectors

Risk Overview

Flagged vs. clean application ratio

1%
2 flaggedclean remainder

Top Vectors

Highest-yield detectors by flags raised

Digital Gift Card + Tax Return
2 flagged applications
rule
Go2Bank / Green Dot + Utility Template
1 flagged applications
rule
Organized Fraud Similarity Cluster
1 flagged applications
similarity
AI for Economic Opportunity

Fraud detection that protects legitimate applicants

Use nearly 450,000 historical applications to learn how fraud behaves, then turn that into evidence-driven detection that minimizes friction for legitimate households.

Historical corpus
450,000
applications for pattern learning

Historical behavior modeling

Build baselines from prior applications so the platform knows what normal, anomalous, and previously confirmed fraud patterns look like.

450k application lookbackKnown fraud corpus enrichmentProgram and geography-specific baselines

Coordinated fraud detection

Look for linked submissions that reuse entities, documents, devices, and payout rails across apparently separate applicants.

Shared address / IP / deviceDocument-template reuseRing and cluster scoring

Synthetic identity vectors

Detect applications that use realistic but fabricated identities by measuring internal consistency across identity, payment, and household details.

Name and DOB coherenceAccount-holder mismatchCross-document identity drift
Detection outcomes
37
coordinated clusters

Linked applications sharing payout, device, address, or document signals.

14
synthetic identity alerts

Identity records with realistic details but inconsistent internal evidence.

18,420
confirmed fraud references

Historical examples feeding watchlists, similarity search, and vector tuning.

Applicant protection guardrails
Automatic denials0

Flags create review work, not automatic adverse action.

Escalation threshold2+ signals

High-risk escalation should require more than a single weak indicator.

Legitimate-hit target<5%

Set a target ceiling for reviewed legitimate applicants caught in fraud queues.

Implementation Slice

Unify Program Integrity Pilot

A presentation-ready slice of the broader fraud-intelligence model: analyze historical patterns, surface coordinated attempts, and protect legitimate applicants from blunt rules.

Direct DepositPaper CheckDigital Gift Card
Common documents
Lease agreement · Utility bill · Bank statement
Initial vectors
Digital GC + Tax Return · Go2Bank / Green Dot + Utility or Bank Statement
Program Workflow

Rental assistance review stages

The first production slice for a broader fraud-intelligence platform.

2 active pilot cases
1Intake
Program Operations

Upload rental assistance batch and normalize mapped fields.

No current case
2Tier 1 Screening
Application Review Team

Perform four-point profile review and obvious document checks.

No current case
3Fraud Vector Analysis
Fraud Ops System

Apply payment, identity, and template-based vectors across the batch.

No current case
4Tier 2 Escalation
Fraud Review Team

Escalate suspicious combinations to specialized fraud review.

Ari Holt
tier 2 review
5Decision
Fraud Lead

Confirm fraud, dismiss, or hold for manual follow-up.

No current case
6Watchlist Feedback
Program Integrity

Promote confirmed signals into watchlists and the fraud corpus.

Aria Holt
confirmed fraud
Product Surface

What this frontend now covers

Datasets

Upload program datasets, normalize identity and payout fields, and prepare historical application records for fraud analysis.

Historical intakeColumn mappingBaseline-ready metadata

Fraud Vectors

Create deterministic and similarity-based detectors from documented vectors, confirmed fraud patterns, and synthetic identity indicators.

Payment + document combosSynthetic identity checksCorpus tag strategy

Analysis Runs

Launch batched analysis across mapped applications, process coordinated-risk vectors, and inspect reviewer-ready outcomes.

Run historyCoordinated-risk queueProgram audit trail

Application Review

Investigate rental assistance applications, review case stage, request explanations, and disposition cases.

Fraud score drill-downStage ownershipConfirm or dismiss

Synthesis

Explain why an application was flagged with a selectable model through OpenRouter or local Ollama.

Per-request model choiceOn-demand onlyNo auto-execution on runs

Similarity Search

Embed normalized application payloads and compare them to historical fraud cases using pgvector.

Corpus embeddingsCross-program lookbackRing-pattern matching
Vector Library

Configured fraud vectors

Rule-based and similarity detectors ready to run.

Manage vectors
Fraud Vector

Shared Address + IP Reuse

rule

Flags rental assistance applications when the same service address and submission IP appear repeatedly within a review window.

logicANDconditions2
maya.singh@agency.gov
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Fraud Vector

Organized Fraud Similarity Cluster

similarity

Compares normalized rental assistance application fingerprints against a confirmed fraud corpus of template reuse and payment-risk cases.

threshold0.83corpusmulti-household-ring
alex.nguyen@agency.gov
View config
Fraud Vector

Digital Gift Card + Tax Return

rule

High-confidence vector derived from audit findings: digital gift card payment combined with tax return documentation.

logicANDconditions2
alex.nguyen@agency.gov
View config
Fraud Vector

Go2Bank / Green Dot + Utility Template

rule

Escalates applications using high-risk routing numbers paired with utility-bill documentation or duplicated utility templates.

logicANDconditions2
maya.singh@agency.gov
View config