Officials have broad authority over both applicants and existing welfare recipients. The Smart Check system was designed to avoid these scenarios by eventually replacing the initial caseworker who flags which cases to send to the investigations department. Smart Check was an exciting prospect for city officials like de Koning, who would manage the project when it was deployed. With this data, we were able to build a hypothetical welfare recipient to get insight into how an individual applicant would be evaluated by Smart Check. This model was trained on a data set encompassing 3,400 previous investigations of welfare recipients.