Centrelink automation failing vulnerable people: report
Australia’s most vulnerable people are falling through the cracks as Centrelink services become more automated, according to a new report.
Australia’s most vulnerable people are falling through the cracks as Centrelink services become more automated, according to a new report.
If the government was a private company it would go out of business or be shut down by regulators for fraud over the Centrelink debacle, says former Digital Transformation Office head Paul Shetler.
The Department of Human Services has completed its data centre consolidation project, opening a new facility that it claimed will save taxpayers $24.5 million in leasing costs over the next 10 years.
The Abbott government will provide $60.5 million over the next four years to progress ‘tranche one’ of its $1 billion project to replace its 30-year-old welfare payment system.