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

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Commonwealth lawyers argue Jarrad Madgwick, whose death by suicide was highlighted at royal commission, ineligible as he only received provisional debt notice 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.

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