Senior DHS official ‘very angry’ when colleague suggested robodebt needed ‘major response’, inquiry told
by Luke Henriques-Gomes Social affairs and inequality from World news | The Guardian on (#66VSV)
Compliance manager tells royal commission she was unable to influence' boss away from deliver the numbers' direction
A senior public servant was very angry" when she was told the robodebt scheme required a major incident response" from the Department of Human Services, a royal commission has been told.
The commission 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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