Published: November 27, 2019
The Coalition has been forced to dismantle a central plank of its controversial debt recovery program
On Wednesday the federal government settled a landmark challenge to its robodebt program, conceding that income-averaging alone was not a proper basis to claim the plaintiff, Deanna Amato, owed it a debt.
The admission explains why last week the government services minister, Stuart Robert, was forced to dismantle a central plank of the robodebt program’s automation by abandoning sole reliance on income averaging to calculate debts.
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