This page collects the questions clients ask about individual screening and the answers to them, in the form in which they are sent to the client. The check names match the catalog, and the identifiers are given as in the checkers field of the REST API.
How do the “FSSP wanted list” and “Enforcement proceedings” differ?
These are two different databases of the Federal Bailiff Service, which is why the results differ too.
“Enforcement proceedings” (debtBurden) — the enforcement proceedings data bank. It shows active proceedings against the person: the creditor, the type of claim (loan, fine, tax and others), the amount of the debt, the bailiff’s office and the proceedings number. Unpaid debts under court decisions are reflected here.
“FSSP wanted list” (fsspWantedStatus) — a separate registry of persons the bailiffs have placed on the wanted list. Not every debtor ends up on it, only those who evade enforcement or whose whereabouts have not been established. The response contains the wanted-list category, the date it was declared, and the number of the proceedings under which the person is being sought.
How they relate. A person with debts under enforcement proceedings is most often not on the wanted list, whereas someone placed on the FSSP wanted list almost always also has open proceedings. That is why a record in the “FSSP wanted list” appears less often and carries more weight, while a record in “Enforcement proceedings” appears more often.
Both checks run by full name and date of birth and are returned as separate results: the first a list of proceedings with amounts, the second a list of wanted-list records. Either list can be empty independently of the other.
