A 2023 report by a royal commission investigating this program found that multiple welfare recipients committed suicide after wrongly being told to pay back their benefits. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this illegal debt assessment program run by Services Australia that automatically crosschecked welfare payment records with income data. This program issued at least 470,000 incorrect debt notices from 2016 to 2020.
ANSWER: Robodebt scheme
[10e] This politician launched the Robodebt scheme while Minister for Social Services. This politician’s term as prime minister included the 2019-2020 bushfire season and a notably slow vaccine rollout.
ANSWER: Scott Morrison [or Scott John Morrison]
[10m] A similar Dutch algorithm wrongly flagged thousands of immigrants as fraudulently claiming benefits for this service. Germany provides this service in generally free-of-charge institutions called Kitas.
ANSWER: childcare [accept childcare benefits, daycare, preschool, pre-K, or nursery; reject “schooling”; reject “education”; reject “kindergarten”]
<Henry Atkins, Modern World>