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We urge action on inquiry findings into 'robo debt'
22 June 2017
Victoria Legal Aid
We are urging the Commonwealth Government to implement the findings of a Senate Committee report into Centrelink’s controversial ‘robo debt’ scheme.
Turnbull Govt Must Implement Robo-Debt Inquiry Recommendations
22 June 2017
Community and Public Sector Union
The CPSU has urged the Turnbull Government to urgently implement the key recommendations of a Senate inquiry into the Centrelink robo-debt debacle, with the program still in force and now being rolled out to target pensioners.
Senate Inquiry Finds Tudge's robo-debt system "so flawed it was set up to fail"
22 June 2017
The Hon Linda Burney MP, Shadow Minister for Human Services, ALP Member for Barton
The Senate inquiry into Alan Tudge’s bungled robo-debt disaster has handed down a scathing report of the system, finding that it was doomed from its inception despite claims from the government that the system was “working well”.
Parliamentary committee finds Centrelink robo-debt system has had 'profoundly negative impact'
22 June 2017
SMH
Centrelink's 'robo-debt' effort should stop immediately, a Parliamentary committee says, after finding the program had a "profoundly negative impact on the lives of thousands of Australians."
Christian Porter defiant on Centrelink's 'robodebt' flaws: 'This is not a matter for apology'
22 June 2017
Guardian
Social services minister says debt recovery system criticised in Senate inquiry is tackling ‘a massive amount of overpayments’ to claimants
Govt rejects damning report on DHS' robodebt program
21 June 2017
IT News
The federal government has rejected a damning report into the Department of Human Services' 'robodebt' program that recommended it be immediately and indefinitely halted.
Senate inquiry calls for Centrelink robo-debt system to be suspended until fixed
21 June 2017
Guardian
A Senate inquiry has called for Centrelink’s controversial automated debt recovery system to be suspended until its many flaws can be resolved.
The inquiry released its report on Wednesday night, which made 21 recommendations for fixing the robo-debt system.
The inquiry has urged all debts calculated using the error-prone “income averaging” process to be reassessed. It also called for a redesign of the system with a robust risk assessment process.
Robodebt program must be suspended
21 June 2017
Anglicare Australia
Anglicare Australia has called for the Centrelink automated debt recovery process to be suspended. The call is made ahead of the release of the Senate Inquiry’s robodebt report.
Robo a no-go until Centrelink implements Inquiry's recommendations
21 June 2017
Skye Kakoschke-Moore, Nick Xenophon Team Senator for South Australia
Senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore is calling on the Government to urgently act on the recommendations in the report released today by the Senate Committee inquiring into the Centrelink robo-debt system.
Senate committee recommends robo-debt be put on hold and drastically overhauled
21 June 2017
Rachel Siewert, Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia
A Senate Committee report into the Government’s Centrelink Online Compliance Intervention (robo-debt) program has called for it to be put on hold until of the procedural fairness flaws in the program are addressed. The Committee a says the Government should re-assess all debts determined through the use of income averaging and that a redesigned system should include a robust risk assessment process.