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Centrelink's double standards

10 January 2017
Tips and rumours
Crikey

Senate documents show the agency doesn't keep data on underpayments.

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As the headlines about the Centrelink debt recovery program show no sign of abatement, it is interesting to look at previous information the Department of Human Services gave to Senate estimates last year. The department’s own documents show that just 9.64% of all Centrelink recipients received an overpayment between July and December 2016.

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