Senate debates

Monday, 7 December 2020

Questions without Notice

Pensions and Benefits

2:14 pm

Photo of Kimberley KitchingKimberley Kitching (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Accountability) Share this | Hansard source

Davidh from Seaford was issued a robodebt variously calculated at $3,800, $4,088, $1,370 and $1,500 before being reduced to zero. Davidh says:

I think I could have been one of the people who died because of this. They nearly cost me my life.

When the government was told in a department brief on 1 March 2017 that a third of robodebts had been reassessed and reduced to zero dollars, why did Mr Morrison insist on putting the lives of thousands of people like Davidh at risk?

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