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.
A shift by Centrelink to the New Payments Platform (NPP) will mean that emergency welfare payments can be made almost instantly, according to the government.
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.
The Department of Human Services’ controversial ‘robo-debt’ system lacks usability and transparency, according to a Commonwealth ombudsman’s report released today.
Although it is still early days for the government’s massive overhaul of Centrelink’s welfare payment systems, the project is already delivering dividends, according to human services minister Alan Tudge.
The Senate has backed an inquiry into Centrelink’s widely criticised data-matching program, which is intended to claw back welfare overpayments but whose accuracy and impact on welfare recipients has been condemned.
The federal government has identified SAP as the preferred core software vendor for its mammoth Welfare Payment Infrastructure Transformation (WPIT) program.
The Department of Human Services has released a request for expressions of interest (EOI) from the IT industry to design and construct a new Centrelink payment system.
The government's second budget sets aside $143 million over four years for IT systems to help deliver the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).