The ‘Robo-Debt’ Debacle Has Some Lessons For Digital Health And The #myHealthRecord.

This appeared last week: Govt to pay back $721m wrongly raised through robodebt By Justin Hendry on May 29, 2020 4:01PM Finally bites the bullet. The federal government will refund $720 million extracted from welfare recipients under the guise of 'debts' that were created and collected under the reviled robodebt program that was subsequently found not to be legal. In a statement on Friday, Government Services Minister Stuart Robert said “470,000 debts raised wholly or partially using income averaging of Australia Tax Office data” would be repaid. “Refunding of eligible debts will commence in July and will continue through the 2020-21 financial year,” he said. “The total value of refunds including fees and charges is estim ated at $721 million.” Robodebt, officially known as the income compliance program, was introduced by the then Department of Human Services in 2016 to replace parts of a formally manual debt-raising process. The system automatically matched earnings reported to... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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