The first victim of the federal government's disastrous robodebt scheme has fronted the royal commission. 9News
The scheme was hailed as a cost-saving measure to crack down on welfare fraudsters but the government eventually agreed to repay about $751 million, plus interest, wrongly recovered from 381,000 people.Melanie Klieve, a victim of robodebt, fronted the royal commission today as one of the first sufferers of the failed scheme.
Melanie Klieve, a victim of robodebt, fronted the royal commission today as one of the first sufferers of the failed scheme. Klieve said at the end of her statement she hopes the disaster of the robodebt scheme will never happen again.Earlier, the former general manager of Services Australia Jason McNamara fronted the commission. McNamara was brought on to clean up the robodebt scheme.
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