‘You’re denying what you did to my son’: mother of robodebt victim told she is ineligible for compensation

Kath Madgwick’s son, Jarrad, was 22 when he died by suicide in 2019 after being told by Centrelink he owed nearly $2,000. Photograph: Supplied

The mother of a robodebt victim who ended his life says she is experiencing “injustice of another kind” after commonwealth lawyers said she would be excluded from an historic $475m class action settlement.

Kath Madgwick’s son, Jarrad, was 22 when he died by suicide in 2019 after being told he owed nearly $2,000.