Class action to target government over ‘robotdebt’ scheme
Centrelink’s controversial ‘robodebt’ scheme will be the subject of a class action led by law firm Gordon Legal with the support of the Labor Party.
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Centrelink has human touch with Medicare data initiative, department says
The Department of Human Services has indicated that a program that involving Centrelink matching Medicare’s data holdings to its own records of welfare claimants to find evidence of fraud or identity theft will has a role for human analysts.
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Government matches Medicare, Centrelink data to combat fraud
The Department of Human Services is preparing to launch a new program that will combine data from Centrelink and Medicare in an effort to unearth discrepancies between records held at the two agencies.
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Human Services investigates cause of outage, rules out cyber attack
The Department of Human Services has apologised for a major outage that took the government’s myGov service online during a period of peak demand as people attempt to file tax returns.
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myGov, ATO hit by outages
The myGov portal operated by the Department of Human Services has suffered a major outage.