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Australijski automatyczny quiz dotyczący skandalów zadłużeniowych firmy Robodebt

Testuje, jak działało uśrednianie dochodów Robodebta, dlaczego było to niezgodne z prawem, przesunięcie ciężaru dowodu, a także Komisja Królewska i wyniki rozliczeń.

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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