A mother in Australia has rejected a $100,000 settlement, offered by her government as compensation for the death of her child, that included gift cards to various Australian department stores.
45 year-old Michelle Edwards has rejected an out-of-court settlement from the state run program FamiliesSA that included numerous $400 gift-cards to Myer and Coles stores, the Aussie equivalent of JC Penney and Kohls. Court documents show two payments of emergency funding assistance to Edwards from the Department of Families and Communitites, to cover costs incurred during a 2007 coronial inquest into her daughter Elzabeth's death.
The assistance was provided to her even though she did not qualify for legal aid and was denied government subsidized Victims of Crime funding. Jeremy Roberts, media adviser for the Department of Families and Communities, said "The Department of Families and Communities provided financial assistance to the woman for funeral assistance, legal fees, counseling, family re-establishment/re-unification expenses and other supports to ensure that she was able to look after her other child."
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