Pullitzer Center | Salud con lupa
In Peru, thousands of older adults live in extreme poverty but are unable to access social programs like Pensión 65. The system that determines which households need support has excluded more than 81,000 elderly people. Errors stem from poorly collected data, incomplete or outdated records, and a system that relies on an algorithm to make decisions based on faulty information. In this case, the algorithm is an automatic formula that calculates a score to estimate whether a family is poor, extremely poor, or not poor