The Suspicion Machine Part IV: Denmark's welfare state is hailed as an example of how governments can support their most vulnerable citizens. Conservative pressure to crack down on welfare fraud turned the program into a nightmare. 🎨: katherinelamart
Another variable, “presumed partner,” is used to determine whether someone has a concealed relationship, since single people receive more benefits. This involves searching data for connections between welfare recipients and other Danish residents, such as whether they have lived at the same address or raised children together.
Morten Bruun Jonassen is one of these fail-safes. A former police officer, he leads Copenhagen's control team, a group of officials tasked with ensuring that the city’s residents are registered at the correct address and receive the correct benefits payments.
While he gives credit to Jacobsen’s data mining unit for trying to improve its algorithms, Jonassen has yet to see significant improvement for the cases he handles. “Basically, it’s not been better,” he says. In a 2022 survey of Denmark’s towns and cities conducted by the unit, officials scored their satisfaction with it, on average, between 4 and 5 out of 7.
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