{"id":499564,"date":"2026-02-23T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499564\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:16:10","slug":"ato-looks-to-re-engage-service-australia-on-earnings-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499564\/","title":{"rendered":"ATO looks to re-engage Service Australia on earnings data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian Taxation Office\u2019s second commissioner in charge of the revenue agency\u2019s client engagement group, Jeremy Hirschhorn, has revisited the prospect of the agency collaborating with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themandarin.com.au\/306820-webinar-mandarin-talks-ai-for-modern-regulation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Services Australia<\/a> to enable the near-time automation of earnings checks for welfare recipients to inform benefits payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a quiet but tectonic shift that could ultimately relieve millions of Australians of the drudgery and fear around regular manual income reporting that is cross-checked against benefits and entitlements flowing from Centrelink and Services Australia, Hirschhorn confirmed work is underway to revisit the core cross-agency automation function that robodebt so horribly botched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Taxation Office\u2019s second commissioner in charge of the revenue agency\u2019s client engagement group, Jeremy Hirschhorn, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,251273,29080,251274,251275,44,48161,251276],"class_list":["post-499564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benefits-entitlements","tag-centrelink","tag-earnings-data","tag-income-reporting","tag-news","tag-services-australia","tag-welfare-assessments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}