The Cabinet Office has extended the deadline for people to create new accounts on the GOV.UK Verify service, despite plans to replace it within the next year.
Cabinet Office minister Health Wheeler MP announced the move in a parliamentary statement.
“As confirmed in the most recent Spending Review, under the One Login for Government programme, the government is building a single way for citizens to prove their identity and access central government services online,” she said.
Wheeler said the period in which new users of these services will be able to set up an account has been extended until December 2022. Users with an existing account for connected services will be able to continue to use GOV.UK Verify until it closes in April 2023.
The original deadline was April 2022. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) was due to become the first to begin using One Login.
