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Lucinda Garbutt-Young

Minister backs aged-care automation likened to robodebt

The Integrated Assessment Tool is used to determine funding for older Australians living at home. (Susie Dodds/AAP PHOTOS)

The aged care minister is defending a tool used to determine funding for older Australians living at home, despite hundreds of complaints.

The Integrated Assessment Tool was introduced in November to help distribute funding more equitably, after more than $4 billion was wrongly allocated under the old system.

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