Data.ny.gov provides performance measures for fraud prevention investigations in New York State's cash public assistance and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The dataset contains quarterly and yearly results from local district investigations initiated by flagged cases. It includes columns for cases referred, investigated, resolved, and violations found across multiple detection systems.
Use Cases
- Analyzing trends in fraud detection referrals using the `Year`, `Quarter`, and `Front End Detection System (FEDS) Cases Referred` columns.
- Comparing investigation outcomes across districts using the `District`, `Total IPVs`, and `Intentional Program Violation (IPV) Positive Investigations` columns.
- Assessing the resolution rate of flagged cases using the `Prison Closed Resolved`, `PARIS Closed Resolved`, and `Border Closed` columns from the available investigative systems.
Strengths
- Contains data from 2013 onward, providing a multi-year time series for analysis.
- Includes over 25 specific columns detailing case referrals, investigations, and resolutions across multiple detection systems.
- Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
Limitations
- Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- License and author information are not specified in the provided metadata.
Provenance
- Source
- data.ny.gov
- Collection Method
- Results of local district investigations initiated by flagged cases of state cash public assistance and SNAP programs.
- Time Range
- Beginning 2013
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-14 13:33:21; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- New York State, organized by District.