Australia Robodebt welfare debt recovery
The Australian government's " Online Compliance Intervention"(OCI) scheme - also known as " Robodebt" - was a highly controversial automated debt recovery system that replaced a manual system of calculating overpayments and issuing debt notices to welfare recipients. Launched in July 2016, the OCI data-matching system automated much of the investigation and debt raising process where Australia's Department of Human Services detected a discrepancy between the amount of income a citizen declared in a year with averaged fortnightly income data from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). According to then Prime Minister Scott Morrison, t he new system would increase the 'number of fraud investigations and compliance interventions by over 900,000 over four years' and save AUD 1.8 billion.
- Organisation involved
- Department of Human Services/Centrelink
- Product, system or model
- Online Compliance Intervention (OCI)
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