Robodebt royal commission told ‘misrepresentation may have made its way into the cabinet’
by Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality from World news | The Guardian on (#66K1P)
Bureaucrats from March 2015 insisted in documents that robodebt policies would not change' how welfare overpayments were calculated, inquiry hears
Bureaucrats misrepresented the robodebt scheme in cabinet documents prepared for the 2015 budget, apparently paving the way for the unlawful program to be set up, a royal commission has heard.
The inquiry is investigating why and how the unlawful Centrelink debt recovery scheme was established in 2015 and ran until November 2019, ending in a $1.8bn settlement with hundreds of thousands of victims.
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