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SpainPublic sector2018 – ongoing

General Treasury of Social Security

Predictive models for contribution fraud and payment risk

Spain's social-security treasury used predictive models alongside monitoring of 1.5 million companies

WorkingCompany's own claim

Problem

Contribution fraud reduced social-security income. The treasury needed to identify suspicious employers and anticipate payment problems across a large administrative dataset.

Approach

TGSS equipped data scientists with AI tools to define behavioral patterns and predictive models. Risk alerts supported investigations into fictitious employment. Other models assessed payment-default risk and potential insolvency.

Results

1.5 millioncompanies whose data TGSS monitored within its AI-supported analytical environmentCompany's own claim[1]
18.6 millionactive workers whose data TGSS monitored within the same environmentCompany's own claim[1]

Takeaway

The monitoring figures described coverage, rather than detection accuracy or savings attributable to AI.

Categories

Business function
Finance, risk and legal
Innovation type
Process innovation
Evidence
Company's own claim

Sources

  1. Big Data contra el fraude
    Revista Seguridad Social1 Jun 2018Government publication

Source summaries

[1]Revista Seguridad Social1 Jun 2018

Spain's social-security administration described operational predictive models and risk alerts at TGSS. It reported monitoring data on 1.5 million companies and 18.6 million active workers.

Full details are in the original sources.

Added 1 Nov 2026 · Updated 1 Nov 2026
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