'Irrational' to exclude woman from Mother and Baby payment scheme

She is seeking to quash a 2025 decision by the department refusing her a payment under a section of the scheme

The woman, who cannot be identified by court order, was refused on the basis that she had not spent 180 days in the institution, the minimum required to qualify for redress. Picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews

A woman has been granted leave to challenge an “arbitrary and irrational” refusal of her application for financial redress under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme.

The refusal decision, her lawyers say, could also see up to 24,000 people excluded from the payment.