Published: February 05, 2019
Victoria Legal Aid says case in the federal court will argue the calculations underpinning the system are inaccurate and unlawful
The government’s controversial automated Centrelink debt recovery system – known as “robo-debt” by critics – is set to face a legal challenge in the federal court.
In what lawyers described as a landmark case, Victoria Legal Aid will on Wednesday announce a challenge to the way Centrelink evaluates whether a person owes a welfare debt under the $3.7bn system. It will argue the “crude calculations” created using tax office information are insufficient to assess a person’s earnings and, therefore, unlawful.
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