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Age pensioner felt ‘sheer terror’ at receiving robodebt letter demanding $65,000, inquiry told

Age pensioner felt ‘sheer terror’ at receiving robodebt letter demanding $65,000, inquiry told

Woman says she feared she could lose her home when Centrelink letter ‘turned my life upside down’, before debt was reduced to $120 then refunded Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn age pensioner who was initially told she had one month to pay back a $65,000 robodebt will “never get over” what happened to her, a royal commission has heard.The commission is investigating why and how the unlawful Centrelink debt recovery scheme was established in 2015 and ran until November 2019, ending in a $1.8bn settlement with hundreds of thousands of victims.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup

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