The robodebt royal commission final report will be released today. It's expected to reveal exactly who was responsible for the scheme and whether there were cover-ups.
It's expected to tell us who was responsible for the scheme.
Some $721 million was wrongfully taken from around 381,000 people under the scheme, which started in 2015 and was scrapped in 2020.Government Services Minister Bill Shorten called it "Australia's greatest failure of public administration in social security".Labor promised to call the royal commission before the 2022 election and followed through soon after winning.
Victims of the scheme spoke of their ongoing anxiety following their experience, the aggressiveness with which the debts were pursued by government departments and argued that the onus was on them to retrieve the money they were owed. The commissioner suggested public servants may have colluded to launch robodebt when they knew it was unlawful, though she also speculated workers at one of the two departments involved may have been dishonest with the other.Felicity de Somerville says it would be an act of "self-sabotage" if the government ignores the robodebt royal commission report.
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