Liberal senator admonishes representatives from community legal centres for using the term at inquiryThe Coalition’s controversial debt recovery scheme should not be called robodebt, Liberal MPs say, in part because the phrase is causing anxiety in the community. Hughes also told the inquiry on Friday the term robodebt was “a bit of a misnomer, particularly under the current system”. Centrelink accused of issuing $14,500 robodebt to pensioner with intellectual impairment Read more“And I think using that term is probably creating a bit more anxiety than is required,” Hughes said. And they said they were dealing with a backlog of welfare recipients who had received debt letters under past versions of the scheme. Critics of the scheme have long said that it causes stress and anxiety among the country’s most vulnerable people.

Source: The Guardian October 04, 2019 06:45 UTC