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Kat Wong and Alex Mitchell

Shadows of robodebt as welfare unlawfully cancelled

Almost 1000 people were cut off from payment after being unfairly targeted by an automated system. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

Advocates call for the scrapping of an "unlawful, harsh and unfair" welfare scheme that wrongly cancelled income support payments to almost 1000 jobseekers.

Payments were automatically terminated for 964 people under the federal government's Targeted Compliance Framework between April 2022 and July 2024, despite laws introduced in the aftermath of the Robodebt Royal Commission.

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