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Centrelink automated debt recovery process challenged

4 January 2017
Anna Patty
The Age

Linda Burney, opposition human services spokeswoman, said the controversy over Centrelink's new automated debt recovery system had been going on for months.

"The concern about the program expressed by people to my and my colleagues' offices has been huge," she said. "I think there is a very clear case to suspend the automated data matching process until these issues are resolved. It isn't only unfair and cruel, it's poor public policy."