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The equivalent of I'm guessing three years pay for a multi-year life-ruining experience that spawned mental health problems, relationship breakdowns and other l
by shakna 7y ago
The equivalent of I'm guessing three years pay for a multi-year life-ruining experience that spawned mental health problems, relationship breakdowns and other long-lasting effects:
> But "a decade of hell" later, he had suffered a mental breakdown which led to him being sectioned.
The point of me reinforcing the above isn't just the low compensation. It's that it's low compensation and avoiding the root problem. Software gets trusted more than people.
This shouldn't be allowed to happen again. Safeguards need to be in place to prevent ruining lives over software bugs. Programmers don't trust computers to be right all of the time. We suspect a bug when it isn't human incompetence... Yet rulings like this don't tend to make that angle willing to be explored by anyone.
- lonelappde 7y agoAside from all the pain and suffering they experienced, they are being awarded less money than the government already stole from them in fraudulent claims.