Debts raised under the Coalition’s unlawful income-averaging scheme will start to be repaid in July
The federal government has finally agreed to pay back hundreds of thousands of people who were hit with unlawful and incorrect Centrelink debts over a four-year period through the Coalition’s botched robodebt scheme.
Years after vowing to recoup at least $3bn from welfare recipients and doggedly defending the program’s legality, the government said on Friday it would repay 470,000 debts that were entirely or partially raised using the discredited “income-averaging” calculations.
Source: Robodebt: government to refund 470,000 unlawful Centrelink debts worth $721m
Category: Centrelink debt recovery, Centrelink, Australia news, Australian politics, Coalition, Welfare
