The federal government has agreed a $1.2billion settlement with victims of the robodebt scandal. Some $721million of wrongly recovered debt will be repaid to 370,000 welfare recipients who will get another $112million compensation - about $300 each. The federal government has agreed to pay victims of the robodebt recovery scandal a $1.2billion settlementThe 'robodebt' automated welfare recovery scheme used computer algorithms to get money back from welfare recipients who were thought to have been overpaid. It was ruled unlawful last year, with the Federal Court saying Centrelink could not have been satisfied the debt was correct. The previous Labor government introduced a similar debt recovery process in 2011 but had each case reviewed by a department staff member.

Source: Daily Mail November 16, 2020 03:18 UTC