Former prime minister Scott Morrison is expected to come under pressure on Wednesday to explain why his 2015 cabinet proposal for the robo-debt scheme said it would not change how benefits or income were calculated.
This was despite earlier briefings to him prepared by then-human services minister Marise Payne that said legislative and policy changes would be required to enable annualised PAYE data to be smoothed to automatically raise welfare debts.
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