47+ Robodebt News Images. It's the informal name given to a debt recovery program starting in 2015 that falsely accused members of the community of owing money to the government. Commonwealth had hoped to settle case and has admitted 400,000 welfare debts were unlawfully issued.

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The deceased estates of more than 3,000 people are among those owed robodebt refunds, while one person has been repaid $30,000 unlawfully taken from them under the botched centrelink program. It will be almost impossible to account for the social and economic costs of the government's punitive robodebt program, she said. Originally, the robodebt or online compliance intervention system compared australian tax office income data with welfare payments.

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It's the informal name given to a debt recovery program starting in 2015 that falsely accused members of the community of owing money to the government. It's the informal name given to a debt recovery program starting in 2015 that falsely accused members of the community of owing money to the government. © provided by the guardian photograph: It has also been revealed that despite the government previously committing to starting refunds on.