Government urged to apologise for $720 million Robodebt mistake

Federal Labor believes the Morrison government must apologise to the thousands of Australians that have felt the impact of its failed robo-debt scheme.

Robodebt

Source: AAP

The Morrison government is being urged to apologise to the thousands of Australians who suffered distress because of its failed robodebt scheme.

The government announced on Friday $720 million will be refunded that had wrongly been sought for around 470,000 welfare debts thrown up by the scheme because of faulty income assessments made by the Australian Taxation Office.

 
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Published 30 May 2020 1:40pm
Presented by Yang J. Joo
Source: AAP, SBS


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