Coalition warned robodebt scheme was unenforceable three years before it acted.

The government was repeatedly warned in tribunal decisions that it could not enforce alleged welfare overpayments under its robodebt scheme without proving the debt existed, nearly three years before the federal court reached the same conclusion.

Between April and September 2017, a long-serving Administrative Appeals Tribunal member, Terry Carney, rebuked the government five times about the program, arguing that it was clawing money from welfare recipients without sufficient evidence and in a way that failed “simple mathematics”

Coalition warned robodebt scheme was unenforceable three years before it acted | Centrelink debt recovery | The Guardian