It has become the most widely cited figure in the Centrelink robo-debt debate: that 20% of the debts identified by its data-matching machine are wrong.
But the figure itself is wrong. The true number of mistakes is almost certainly higher, perhaps as high as 90%.
Today I have joined with victims from my electorate of Grayndler to speak out about of the Turnbull Government’s Centrelink debt debacle.
Over the Christmas and New Year period I have been inundated with calls from constituents distressed because they have been issued debt notices and threats of debt recovery action for debts that they never incurred.
Thousands of people with disability, students, pensioners and people recovering from life threatening illnesses are being told by the Turnbull Government that the onus is on them to prove that they have not acted fraudulently.
There is nothing fair about the Turnbull Government's pension cuts and Centrelink crackdowns, no matter how they spin it.
