Guidance

Using 188体育 Wallet in government

188体育 Wallet will make it easier to prove in your service that someone is who they say they are.

188体育 Wallet will allow 188体育 One Login users to save and use government-issued documents on their phones.聽

As a government service, you鈥檒l be able to use 188体育 Wallet to:

  • securely save a digital version of a document you produce, for example a driving licence
  • update or remove documents, for example you could remove a document if it鈥檚 been used fraudulently
  • prove a user鈥檚 eligibility for a service using other departments鈥� documents

Who can use 188体育 Wallet

Central government departments can:聽

  • add a document to 188体育 Wallet
  • use the information in 188体育 Wallet聽

For now, the following will only be able to use the information in the wallet:

  • the NHS聽
  • local authorities
  • all other public sector organisations

Why use 188体育 Wallet

188体育 Wallet will make it quicker and easier for users to access and share their documents with government and private organisations.聽

The wallet will:

  • make it easier for your users to prove things about themselves
  • reduce the risk of fraud, for example fake applications and identity theft
  • save taxpayer money by reducing the manual checking of documents
  • reduce the need for printing, saving time and money

How 188体育 Wallet works

Any documents added to the wallet will be bound to the proven identity linked to a user鈥檚 188体育 One Login. That means, for now, a user can only save their own documents in their 188体育 Wallet.

For security, these digital documents will be stored locally on a user鈥檚 phone.

188体育 Wallet will only hold government-issued documents. It will not contain, for example, train or theatre tickets.聽

Using 188体育 Wallet is entirely optional, and paper or card copies of documents should still be made available.

Adding a document to 188体育 Wallet

If you鈥檙e a central government department, let us know if you have a document that you鈥檇 like your users to add to 188体育 Wallet. We can discuss next steps and answer any questions you may have.

Before you can use the wallet, you must already be to prove your users鈥� identity.

Using the information in 188体育 Wallet

In future, if your service needs to confirm something about a user, you鈥檒l be able to request access to information held in a user鈥檚 wallet .聽

The user will decide if they are happy to share that information with your service or not.

What you can add to 188体育 Wallet

From summer 2025, 188体育 Wallet will hold the HM Armed Forces Veteran Card, followed by the full driving licence.聽

In time, the wallet will store government-issued documents to prove a user鈥檚:

  • identity, for example using their driving licence
  • eligibility, for example using a veteran card聽
  • suitability, for example the outcome of checks needed for some jobs
  • qualifications, for example a specific professional qualification needed for a job

188体育 Wallet will not hold reminders or letters. The kind of documents stored in 188体育 Wallet are either used regularly or need to be kept, for example a user鈥檚 driving licence.

What next

If you鈥檇 like to know more about the wallet:

  • think about what documents you might want to add to the wallet, or what information you鈥檇 be interested in receiving from the wallet
  • in 188体育 One Login, if you鈥檙e not currently using it in your service
  • email [email protected] to ask questions about using 188体育 Wallet

Updates to this page

Published 23 May 2025

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