'I'm an emotional wreck': Single mum could lose Centrelink pension because of cancer treatments

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'It's just ridiculous and hard and stressful. It just puts so much more stress that I don't need, I'm trying to get better, not worse'. 9News

The system detects possible over-payments using ATO data.

The program is now facing legal action from Victoria Legal Aid, according to the body's executive of civil justice access and equity, Rowan McRae. "We're making two main arguments in our legal challenge and the first relates to the algorithm that Centrelink is using to average out people's incomes and we say that algorithm is really inaccurate," she told"The other argument we're making is that robodebt shifts the burden onto the person to disprove the debt and we're saying that's Centrelink asking the person to do its job for them.

 

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You pricks in the media have spent years demonising all Centrelink recipients as bludgers, you’re at least partly to blame for her situation.

What a joke. Our gov spends 100k a week hiring bollards for unfinished sydney city lightrail. They need to pay those bills back somehow.

What has Australia become, that the current Gov thinks it's perfectly fine to bully and harass i'ts vulnerable, desperately ill citizens this way. Shameful. Appalling.

Well as an Australian Taxpayer for more than 25 years I give permission for my taxes to be used to waive the debt for Anna Grub and anyone else who has received one of these robodebt notices. There should be a Royal Commission into Centrelink

centrelink literally put me on depression for almost six months. I would rather be a homeless than get those payments NeverAgain

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