Evidence approval checks provide an extra step in the apply evidence change process to ensure that the evidence changes are correct. When a user selects to activate evidence or remove evidence, the system determines whether or not the evidence change requires approval from the case supervisor. If approval is required, the case supervisor is notified that the evidence cannot be activated or removed until the case supervisor approves the evidence change. If the person submitting the evidence is the same as the user to whom the evidence approval task will be assigned the evidence is automatically activated.
The temporal evidence framework provides support for configuring evidence approval checks for an evidence type. A percentage is entered for an evidence approval check which denotes the percentage of evidence changes which will require manual case supervisor approval. For example, 80 percent of evidence changes for the income evidence type can require approval. This means that 80 percent of all income evidence records must be manually approved before they are activated or before they are removed. If no evidence approvals are configured, the system interprets this to mean that evidence approvals are not required.