{"id":204579,"date":"2026-04-21T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:30:19","slug":"first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care\/","title":{"rendered":"First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care-280711\">First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care-280711\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care-280711<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 16:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Welfare System Tensions<\/strong>: Welfare programs face a dilemma: balancing fiscal responsibility and consistency versus providing care for individuals with complex needs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Automated Decision-Making<\/strong>: Australia has increasingly used computers for welfare decisions, which have resulted in significant issues, notably the Robodebt scheme.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>NDIS and Age Care Systems<\/strong>: The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and the new Support at Home program for aged care increasingly rely on computer-guided tools, raising concerns about &#8216;robo-planning&#8217; and &#8216;robo-assessment&#8217; respectively.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Integrative Assessment Tool<\/strong>: The aged care Integrated Assessment Tool uses an algorithm to determine funding levels based on factors like mobility, cognition, and daily living, raising questions about transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Ethical Concerns in Algorithm Use<\/strong>: Ethical worries about algorithm-driven decisions highlight issues of opacity, discretion, and accountability, questioning whether such systems truly enhance fairness or just standardize outcomes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Current Investigations and Scrutiny<\/strong>: The Commonwealth Ombudsman is currently investigating the aged care assessment tool, emphasizing the need for transparency in algorithmic decision-making.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Public Feedback<\/strong>: There is significant public feedback requesting reassessments under the new system, indicating dissatisfaction with funding levels and calling for more comprehensible and contestable processes. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Call for Transparency<\/strong>: There is a strong call for full transparency regarding algorithms, particularly on specifics like eligibility criteria, funding rules, and algorithmic logic.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care https:\/\/theconversation.com\/first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care-280711&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/731201\/original\/file-20260421-57-vdmcky.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C160%2C1920%2C960&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204581,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204579\/revisions\/204581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}