A royal commission into the now-defunct debt recovery scheme, commonly known as Robodebt, has wrapped up for now after two weeks of hearings in Brisbane.
The Online Compliance Intervention was introduced by the federal government in mid-2016 — an automated system meant to ensure people on Centrelink benefits were not over-receiving.
It compared income data from the Australian Tax Office (ATO) with what welfare recipients reported to Centrelink — a process known as income averaging.
