The unclaimed-benefits problem we built Aid Audit to solve.
Tens of billions in government benefits go unclaimed across Ireland, the UK, France, and the Netherlands every year. People are entitled to the money and do not get it. Aid Audit checks your eligibility for every benefit in plain language, with a source citation per result, so the next person near the poverty line does not miss out on what they are owed.
See the per-country take-up gap on the unclaimed benefits page, or run your own eligibility audit.
UN Sustainable Development Goals.
We map our contribution to the SDGs so that funders, partners, and users can hold us to a real definition of impact.
Primary contributions.
SDG 1, No Poverty.
Aid Audit is a direct income-uplift tool. Every benefit it surfaces is statutory income the user is legally entitled to. We track total euros and pounds identified across audits, and the share of those audits where the identified amount is above the user's monthly household income.
Target 1.3: implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all.
SDG 10, Reduced Inequalities.
Non-take-up of benefits is structurally biased. It hits migrants, low-literacy households, the elderly, single mothers, disabled people and rural populations hardest. By compressing the take-up gap, Aid Audit reduces an inequality of access.
Target 10.2: empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
SDG 16, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.
Aid Audit makes opaque state benefits systems legible to the citizen.
Target 16.6: develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels. Target 16.10: ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms.
Secondary contributions.
SDG 3, Good Health and Well-Being.
Health-cost relief schemes (Irish Medical Card and LTI, the UK NHS Low Income Scheme, French Complémentaire Santé Solidaire, Dutch zorgtoeslag) sit directly in the engine.
Target 3.8, financial risk protection.
SDG 5, Gender Equality.
Single parents, widows and full-time carers, overwhelmingly female cohorts, are over-represented in non-take-up. We report identified entitlements by gender where users opt in to share that signal.
SDG 8, Decent Work and Economic Growth.
In-work benefits and work-incentive payments keep people in employment by topping up low wages.
SDG 17, Partnerships for the Goals.
We partner with NGOs, citizens-information bodies and unions to bring Aid Audit to people who do not arrive through a self-service channel.
What we do not claim.
We do not claim contributions to SDGs 4, 6, 11, 13 or any goal where the link would be tenuous. Impact is small enough to draw a line around.
How we will report.
Once the waitlist opens, this page will host a live counter of total identified entitlements, average per audit, and the breakdown across the primary SDGs above. Until then, treat the framing as a commitment, not a measurement.
Check what you are entitled to (Ireland, UK, France, Netherlands) · Per-country take-up gap · How the engine works