Tax Office Worker Wins Appeal To Have Breast Reduction Surgery Funded By Australian Government

An Australian Taxation Office worker is expected to undergo a $20,000 government-funded breast reduction.

After receiving compensation for a workplace injury in 2009, Roseanne Howes took her employer to court again, trying to get taxpayers to fund breast-reduction surgery she claimed she needed.

Howes claimed her breast size increased from a size o DD to an F after the injury and left her desperately requiring the procedure.

According to stuff.co.nz, Howes said long hours hunched over computers at work left her with serious neck and shoulder pain, which she had already been compensated for, and which made her weight balloon and prompted the need for the breast surgery.

After losing the case earlier this year, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal recommended that she join Weight Watchers or exercise more.

The decision was today overturned by the Federal Court and Howes will be granted government funding for the surgery.