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Comment on Record payout for victims of 'illegal and immoral' Australian welfare scheme

makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

So nearly 2 billion of our tax payers money gone to settlement, because of the evil monsters that created robodebt.

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Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

In total, the redress scheme amounts to about $2.4bn. This includes $1.76bn in debts that were wiped and and money given back to victims who paid false debts.

Thursday’s announcement of an extra $475m in compensation is in addition to the $112m awarded in 2020, meaning a total of $587m.

Sounds like most of the money was illegal unpaid debt, so to call it taxpayer’s money is not really accurate. No one else should have had a claim to that money in the first place.

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