A robo-debt victim who took his life after being told he had $17,000 in welfare debts was “let down by the system”, his mother told the robo-debt royal commission on Monday.
In harrowing testimony, the commission heard that Jennifer Miller’s son, Rhys Cauzzo, took his own life on January 26, 2017. This was after receiving about a dozen letters from Centrelink, as well as several letters, text messages and about a dozen calls from private debt collector Dun & Bradstreet.
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