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290:(ATO) has used data-matching systems to compare income data received from external sources with income reported by taxpayers, to ensure taxation compliance. In 2001, Services Australia (then the Department of Human Services) piloted a program that compared a customer’s Centrelink income details with ATO data, to identify discrepancies in the information provided to Centrelink. Where there was a discrepancy, Services Australia would decide if the customer had been overpaid and had a debt that should be recovered. This program (known as the Income Matching System, or IMS) was fully rolled out in 2004. The IMS identified roughly 300,000 possible discrepancies per year. Services Australia would identify and investigate roughly 20,000 of the highest risk discrepancies per year, but were unable to investigate the remaining discrepancies, due to the costs and resources involved in manually investigating and raising debts. The IMS continued largely unchanged until the introduction of the Robodebt scheme in 2016. 494: 53: 385: 609: 1086: 556:"That the Department of Human Services should resume full responsibility for calculating verifiable debts (including manual checking) relating to income support overpayments, which are based on actual fortnightly earnings and not an assumed average; and provide those issued debt notices with the debt calculation data required to be assured any debts are correct". 436:
being pursued dated back further than the ATO requests that Australians retain their documentation. Particular criticism focused on the burden of proof being moved from Centrelink needing to verify the information, to being on the individual to prove they did not owe the funds, with human interaction being very limited in the dispatch of the debt letters.
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Opponents of the Robodebt scheme said that errors in the system were leading to welfare recipients paying non-existent debts or debts that were larger than what they actually owed, whilst some welfare recipients had been required to make payments while contesting their debts. In some cases, the debts
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in August 2022. The commission handed down its report in July 2023, which called the scheme a "costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms", and referred several individuals to law enforcement agencies for prosecution. The report also specifically criticised former Prime
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The scheme has been the subject of considerable controversy, having been criticised by media, academics, advocacy groups, and politicians due to allegations of false or incorrectly calculated debt notices being issued, concerns over impacts on the physical and mental health of debt notice recipients,
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In May 2022, the sixth and final report from the second Senate inquiry into the scheme recommended a Royal Commission, "to completely understand how the failures of the Income Compliance Program came to pass, and why they were allowed to continue for so long despite the dire impacts on people issued
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After weeks of criticism from the Opposition, in June 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in response to a question from the opposition concerning a particular victim of the scheme, stated in parliament that "I would apologise for any hurt or harm in the way that the Government has dealt with that
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In July 2016, the manual system began to be replaced with the Online Compliance Intervention, an automated data-matching technique with less human oversight, capable of identifying and issuing computer-generated debt notices to welfare recipients who had potentially been overpaid. The new system was
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suit challenging the legal foundations of the Robodebt system. On 16 November 2020, the day before the trial was due to begin, the Australian government announced that it had struck a deal with Gordon Legal, to settle out-of-court. The deal saw 400,000 victims of Robodebt share in an additional
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payment compliance program. Put in place in July 2016 and announced to the public in December of the same year, the scheme aimed to replace the formerly manual system of calculating overpayments and issuing debt notices to welfare recipients with an automated data-matching system that compared
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On 11 June 2021, the Federal Court approved a A$ 1.872 billion settlement incorporating repayment of A$ 751 million, wiping of all remaining debts, and the legal costs running to A$ 8.4 million. In ruling against the scheme, Justice Bernard Murphy described it as a "shameful chapter in the
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Christian Porter, who was Minister for Social Services when the Robodebt system was first implemented, and who had previously defended the scheme, conceded that the use of averaged income data to calculate welfare overpayments was unlawful, stating that there was "no lawful basis for it".
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In October 2022, the Albanese government effectively forgave the debts of 197,000 people that were still under review. In August 2023, the Albanese government passed a formal motion of apology in the House of Representatives, apologising for the scheme on behalf of the Parliament.
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that "I would apologise for any hurt or harm in the way that the Government has dealt with that issue and to anyone else who has found themselves in those situations." However, the Morrison government never offered a formal apology before it was voted out of office in 2022.
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announced a federal court challenge of the scheme's calculations used to estimate debt, stating that the calculations assumed that people are working regular, full-time hours when calculating income. In November 2019, the federal government agreed to orders by the
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that the averaging process using ATO income data to calculate debts was unlawful, and announced that it would no longer raise debts without first gathering evidence – such as payslips – to prove a person had underreported their earnings to Centrelink.
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The NACC's decision received 900 complaints, sparking an independent inquiry into the decision by the Inspector of the NACC. The Inspector obtained documents relating to the decision, and requested submissions from the NACC by October.
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Initially meant to report its findings in December 2019, the inquiry's deadline was extended six times, with the Senate committee delivering its final report in May 2022. The five interim reports made several findings, including:
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Colleen Taylor, a former employee of the department, received a 2024 King's Birthday Honour for her efforts to expose the scheme. Taylor had tried to raise concerns internally in 2017, and had testified at the Royal Commission.
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That the government was still withholding critical information about the Income Compliance Program and the committee had been hindered in producing its final report due to "entrenched resistance and opacity" from ministers and
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The ombudsman also recommended that before expanding the scheme, the DHS should undertake a comprehensive evaluation of the scheme in its current form, and consider how to mitigate the risk of possible over-recovery of debts.
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In June 2020, the Greens and Labor called for a Royal Commission into Robodebt, to "determine those responsible for the scheme, and its impact on Australians". These calls have been reiterated by university academics, and by
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publicly announced the implementation of this new automated debt recovery scheme – which was given the colloquial name "Robodebt" by the media – was estimated to be capable of issuing debt notices at a rate of 20,000 a week.
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The final report of the Royal Commission was released on 7 July 2023. Along with 57 recommendations, a sealed section referred several unnamed individuals for further investigation or action, to four separate bodies.
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Following the findings of public service misconduct, lawyers representing the class action announced they would appeal their previous $ 1.8B settlement, seeking compensation for the further breaches uncovered.
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Senate standing committees on community affairs design, scope, cost-benefit analysis, contracts awarded and implementation associated with the better management of the social welfare system initiative
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Justice Bernard Murphy in his June 2021 ruling against the government, where he approved a A$ 1.8 billion settlement, including repayments of debts paid, wiping of outstanding debts, and legal costs.
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In April 2015, measures to create budgetary savings by increasing the pursuit of outstanding debts and investigation of cases of fraud in the Australian welfare system were first flagged by the
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criticized the scheme and its automated debt calculation methods. The scheme was also criticized by advocacy groups for people affected by poverty, disadvantage, and inequality, including the
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implemented an overhaul of the federal welfare budget in an effort to crack down on Centrelink overpayments believed to have occurred between 2010 and 2013 under the Gillard government.
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Minister Scott Morrison, who oversaw the introduction of the scheme when he was the Minister for Social Services, for misleading Cabinet and failing in his ministerial duties.
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The Australian government lost a 2019 lawsuit over the legality of the income averaging process and settled a class-action lawsuit in 2020. The scheme was further condemned by
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program at the Department of Defence, was suspended without pay from her role on 20 July. Kathryn Campbell resigned from the Department of Defence effective 21 July 2023.
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The Robodebt scheme was the subject of a Senate committee inquiry beginning in 2017. The inquiry had a number of findings and made a number of recommendations, including:
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has a fundamental conflict of interest – the harder it is for people to navigate this system and prove their correct income data, the more money the department recoups".
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Allegations levelled against the scheme by the media, former and current welfare recipients, advocacy groups, politicians and relatives of welfare recipients include:
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That the program had ignored warnings that began within months of the July 2016 start of the scheme, and had continued to issue debt notices that had no basis in law.
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In early January 2017, six months after the commencement of automated debt recovery, it was announced that the scheme had issued 169,000 debt notices and recovered
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That the Australian public, especially Robodebt victims, deserve to know what advice was provided to Government and how this advice informed decision-making.
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asked DSS lawyer Anne Pulford, "You get an advice in draft, and if it's not favourable you just leave it that way?"; Pulford responded "Yes, Commissioner".
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said the government accepted the settlement, but distanced himself from the suicides and mental health issues surrounding the administration of the scheme.
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Revelations that debt notices were issued to 663 vulnerable people (people with complex needs like mental illness and abuse victims) who died soon after.
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announced that its investigation into the individuals had concluded, leading to several fines and demotions. No individuals were fired from their role.
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welcomed this saying "The Robodebt affair was not just a maladministration scandal, it was a human tragedy that resulted in people taking their lives".
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conducted a two-stage pilot of the Robodebt scheme, targeting debts of selected welfare recipients that were accrued between 2011–2013. Following the
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announced the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme, with Letters Patent issued on 25 August 2022. The Royal Commission was chaired by former
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announced that the Robodebt debt recovery scheme was to be scrapped by the Government, with 470,000 wrongly-issued debts to be repaid in full.
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announced that it would scrap the debt recovery scheme, with 470,000 wrongly-issued debts to be repaid in full. Amid enormous public pressure,
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would be able to obtain the truth about Robodebt. Labor subsequently budgeted $ 30M in its election costings for the 2022 election for a
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In November 2022 it was disclosed that legal advice before the scheme started was that it did not comply with legislation. Commissioner
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judge stated that the NACC's refusal to investigate the individuals meant that it had refused to carry out its primary statutory duty.
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in the August 2020 hearing, read two letters from mothers whose sons died by suicide following the receiving of a Robodebt notice.
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and was expected to conclude on 18 April 2023. The deadline was extended twice, first until 30 June and later until 7 July 2023.
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inform customers that their ATO income will be averaged across the relevant period if they do not enter their income information
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After the Turnbull government implemented the Robodebt scheme, many recipients of debt notices filed complaints with the
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indicated that the Robodebt data matching scheme would be extended into 2021 with the aim of recovering an additional
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pledged to hold a royal commission into the Robodebt scheme if his party was elected. After winning the election, the
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issue and to anyone else who has found themselves in those situations". As of 31 July 2020, it was announced that
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program, from 1 July 2015 to 1 July 2016, including the associated pilot programs from early 2015 to 30 June 2015.
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That the use of technology by Government must be supported by appropriate safeguards to protect vulnerable people
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has stated they will commence repayments in 2022 to people who have overpaid according to debt recalculations.
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and questions around the lawfulness of the scheme. Robodebt has been the subject of an investigation by the
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That the Government had not applied the necessary rigour to ensure that people are always treated fairly
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Welfare recipients' suicide after receiving automated debt recovery notices for significant sums.
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help welfare recipients to gather evidence with which to effectively respond to debt notices.
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Services Australia announced in September 2019 that expenditure on the Robodebt program was
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administration of the commonwealth" and "a massive failure of public administration”. The
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was an unlawful method of automated debt assessment and recovery implemented under the
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notify welfare recipients that debts based on averaged ATO income may be less accurate
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The scheme was again the subject of a Senate committee inquiry, which began in 2019.
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Hansard: Community Affairs References Committee - Centrelink's compliance program
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Christian Porter, Minister for Social Services (September 2015 to December 2017)
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fully online by September 2016. In December 2016, Minister for Social Services
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Scott Morrison, Minister for Social Services (December 2014 to September 2015)
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effectively forgave the debts of 197,000 people who were still under review.
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compensation, on top of the additional 470,000 Robodebts (totalling around
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Controversial automated debt recovery scheme employed by Services Australia
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Australian Government - Senate Committee - Centrelink's compliance program
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improve the clarity of debt notices and give customers better information
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The scheme went through several iterations and formal names, including:
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Stuart Robert, Minister for Government Services (May 2019 – March 2021)
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Senate Committee - Centrelink's compliance program (17 August 2020).
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In September 2019 Gordon Legal announced their intention of filing a
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Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (September 2019).
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Initially, the total sum of the repayments was estimated to be
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Snape, Jack; Sweeney, Lucy; Piper, Georgina (8 May 2018).
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Karp, Paul; Hurst, Daniel; Remeikis, Amy (20 July 2023).
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The sixth and final report made a single recommendation:
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had been repaid to more than 145,000 welfare recipients.
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Centrelink records with averaged income data from the
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However, in November 2020 this figure expanded to 598: 2077: 2075: 1597:"Federal parliament apologises to Robodebt victims" 302:Scott Morrison and the Minister for Human Services 193:, and employed by the Australian government agency 2740: 684: 2982: 2141: 2139: 2083:"Bill Shorten says 'Robodebt' scheme was illegal" 2012: 738: 534: 3248: 2072: 1859: 1857: 1855: 1853: 1766:Morrison, Scott; Payne, Marise (10 April 2015). 1028: 1026: 1024: 1022: 1020: 1018: 350: 345: 2920: 2622: 2456: 2369: 2234: 2209: 2203: 2145: 1473: 1363: 1178: 891: 222:, Australia's highest form of public inquiry. 2210:Farrell, Paul; McDonald, Alex (29 July 2019). 2136: 1500: 1498: 1496: 1435: 1433: 1251: 1249: 481:Issuing debt notices to disability pensioners. 3110:"How the NACC 'betrayed its core obligation'" 2683: 2365: 2363: 2361: 1850: 1792: 1768:"Coalition IT reboot to drive welfare reform" 1765: 1033:Hayne, Jordan; Doran, Matthew (29 May 2020). 1015: 154: 2916: 2914: 2304:"Chapter 6: Conclusions and 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Robodebt
a series
Algocracy

AI in government
COMPAS
Cybersyn
DAO
Dutch childcare benefits scandal
IT-backed authoritarianism
OGAS
Ofqual exam results algorithm
OIA
PMPs
Predictive policing
Robodebt scheme
Smart city
SyRI
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t
e
Liberal-National Coalition
Tony Abbott
Malcolm Turnbull
Scott Morrison
Services Australia
Centrelink
Australian Taxation Office
Commonwealth Ombudsman
Senate committee inquiries

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