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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The myGov portal operated by the Department of Human Services has suffered a major outage.