Updated: Senior public servants will front a royal commission into the robo-debt scheme as the government seeks answers about how it started and why repeated warnings it was incorrectly issuing people with welfare debt notices were ignored | katinacurtis
Albanese said it was vital to ensure the “human tragedy” the scheme caused never happened again.
It is expected to hold public hearings and will report in April 2023. Former government services ministers Alan Tudge and Stuart Robert may be required to appear.until at least May 2020, while it determined which debts were genuine and which had been raised by the robo-debt process. Services Australia has contracted a “specialist wellbeing provider” to support “any current and former staff who are required to give evidence, who are involved in the work being reviewed by the Royal Commission or who may be impacted by the proceedings, media reports or public commentary,” she wrote.
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