Almost 200,000 people who spent years fighting to clear welfare debts they didn’t owe will have any active Centrelink investigations wiped. The federal government will scrap the cases of robodebt victims still under review. 7NEWS
Kicking off in 2015, the scheme falsely accused welfare recipients of owing money to the government and issued debt notices to people identified through a process called income averaging, which compared their reported income with tax office figures.Commission chair Catherine Holmes - a former Queensland Supreme Court chief justice - said those who were meant to be overseeing the program had questions to answer.
Holmes urged benefit recipients who had been chased for debts through the scheme to come forward with their experiences. “I understand many just won’t want to revisit the experience, but submissions by those who are prepared to describe what happened in their case will be very helpful indeed, in establishing the detail and the human impact of what occurred.”
“It was a scheme which said it was targeted for getting Centrelink cheats to pay what they owed ... the truth of the matter is the scheme was unlawful,” he told reporters.
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