Penny Allman-Payne (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services. It's now been two years since the recommendations of the robodebt royal commission were handed down, yet several still remain unactioned—including reinstating a six-year limit on debt recovery. I'm deeply concerned that over 100,000 income support recipients whose debts were levied using the department's ruthless and dubious method of income apportionment may yet again be pursued by the government for historical debt notices, once more placing vulnerable people at risk of financial and personal crisis. The pursuit of years old, sometimes decades old, debts was one of the features of the social security system that underpinned the robodebt scheme. Will this government finally act on the royal commission's recommendation to legislate a six-year limitation on debt recovery and ensure that the most vulnerable people in our society are not being chased for debts that can date back decades?