An eerily similar debacle in Australia was the Robodebt scheme [1]. Hundreds of thousands of people were issued debt notices for apparent overpayment of unemplo

An eerily similar debacle in Australia was the Robodebt scheme [1]. Hundreds of thousands of people were issued debt notices for apparent overpayment of unemployment benefits, based on fundamentally incorrect assumptions when calculating peoples income. The system was such a failure that the government ended up wiping all the debts incurred under the scheme, and refunding those who had made repayments. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme