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Cuestionario automatizado sobre el escándalo de la deuda Robodebt de Australia

Prueba cómo funcionó el promedio de ingresos de Robodebt, por qué era ilegal, el cambio de carga de la prueba y la Comisión Real y los resultados del acuerdo.

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What was the central calculation method that made Robodebt debts unreliable?

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  1. What was the central calculation method that made Robodebt debts unreliable?
    • Using bank transaction records to estimate spending
    • Averaging annual tax office income evenly across fortnights
    • Predicting future income with a machine learning model
    • Counting the number of employers a person had worked for
  2. Why does averaging income cause errors for many welfare recipients?
    • Their income is often irregular or seasonal
    • Tax office data is usually fabricated
    • Centrelink does not require income reporting
    • Averaging always overstates income by exactly half
  3. How did Robodebt change who had to prove the correct income?
    • The tax office had to verify each debt with employers
    • Courts reviewed every debt before it was issued
    • Recipients had to supply records to disprove the averaged figure
    • Private debt collectors calculated the final amount
  4. What did the Federal Court's orders in the 2019 Amato case recognise?
    • That data matching between agencies is always illegal
    • That Centrelink must stop paying benefits fortnightly
    • That the scheme was lawful but poorly communicated
    • That a debt based on income averaging was not validly raised
  5. Roughly what was the reported total value of the class action settlement?
    • About A$1.8 billion
    • About A$18 million
    • About A$180 billion
    • No money was involved; only an apology
  6. Who led the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme?
    • A panel of tax office officials
    • Catherine Holmes
    • The Federal Court judge in the Amato case
    • An international UN rapporteur
  7. According to the guide, what is a common misconception about Robodebt?
    • That it affected welfare recipients
    • That it involved data from the tax office
    • That it was mainly a software bug
    • That it was eventually stopped
  8. What step did the earlier human-run process include that the automated version effectively removed?
    • Sending letters by post
    • Recording income by financial year
    • Paying benefits fortnightly
    • Using the data match only as a trigger for verification with employers