As you might remember from our discussion last week, with the v2026 runtime being in Kusama [a bug](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/356) that caused immature slashing of candidacy bonds in council was fixed, and now's the time to proceed with refunding affected accounts. Thank you to all Council members who gave feedback on the best path forward!

[Motion 239] aims to reimburse candidates and runners up who were slashed due to this bug. In order to verify hash, please review this [gist](https://gist.github.com/kianenigma/4593c340b1144305f3f4fa6e205e9782) (generated using [this snippet](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-debug-kit/blob/b6b818ae1bc6a834f2010e8a58726231034ed8c1/remote-ext-elections-phragmen/js/src/index.ts#L597-L624)) - The motion wraps all of the reimbursement calls inside a utility.batch, creating a single batch of force transfers from the treasury to the affected accounts, to be voted by the community.

All councillors please vote at your convenience!

 Schedule a majority-carries referendum to be tabled next once it is legal to schedule
 an external referendum.

 The dispatch of this call must be `ExternalMajorityOrigin`.

 - `proposal_hash`: The preimage hash of the proposal.

 Unlike `external_propose`, blacklisting has no effect on this and it may replace a
 pre-scheduled `external_propose` call.

 Weight: `O(1)`

- A bug in the Kusama system caused some people to lose money.
- The bug has been fixed and now they want to give the money back to the people who lost it.
- They have a plan to verify who should get the money back.
- The council members need to vote on the plan.
- The money will come from the treasury and be given back to the affected accounts.

#239 Incorrect Slashing on Council Caused by elections-phragmen Pallet Bug