Renewed scrutiny for Centrelink’s ‘robot-debt’ program
The Commonwealth Ombudsman has agreed to open a new investigation into Centrelink’s Online Compliance Intervention (OCI), better known as ‘robo-debt’.
The Commonwealth Ombudsman has agreed to open a new investigation into Centrelink’s Online Compliance Intervention (OCI), better known as ‘robo-debt’.
The government plans to spend $316.2 million over four years as it enters the third stage of its massive overhaul of Australia’s welfare payment system.
The Australian Taxation Office holds the voiceprint of one in seven Australians, according to figures released to Computerworld.
The federal government has rejected a central recommendation of a parliamentary inquiry that scrutinised an automated data-matching program intended to recover purported overpayments of welfare benefits.
The report of a Senate inquiry has recommended that Centrelink pause its automated data-matching program designed to claw back welfare overpayments.