Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Almost $700 million in wrongly-reclaimed government 'robo-debt' payments has been returned to hundreds of thousands of people, including the estates of thousands of dead Australians.
To October 26, the government has repaid $697.1 million, Ms Lees said, which made up 94 per cent of all refunds.The remaining 6 per cent, or 38,000 people, includes a group of customers who were yet to make contact with the agency, she said.That group also included people who may have died, people in prison, or other cases which required extra work from the department.
When asked by Greens Senator Rachel Siewert how many of the debts had been returned to deceased estates, Ms Lees could not immediately say. "We've had our agency spokesperson doing radio interviews, and really using our social media platform as well to try to connect with the former customers to prompt them to action" she said.
What a disgrace.
Now for the criminal charges for those that knowingly instituted and continued to operate an illegal scheme.
The ones who committed suicide due to the weight of the unending robodebt persecution? Those dead Australians? auspol
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