Two thousand children taken from their parents by a computer. That computer is still running.

The childcare benefits scandal in numbers: 26,000 parents wrongly labeled as fraudsters. More than 2,000 children removed from homes. Families wrecked. Debts you can never repay. And in 2025, the tax authority was still running similar discriminatory systems — different name, but the exact same idea behind it, as if nobody had learned a thing.