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