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The amounts I declared were right, now how to prove that, I must be lying ?

Debt amount: 
$742
Date debt issued: 
Friday, 2 December 2016
Period debt occurred: 
January 2014 to February 2014
Has your case been referred to a collection agency?: 
No
Payment Type: 
Newstart Allowance
Appealing Debt?: 
Yes but I lost
Tell us about your debt and how has this affected you? e.g. anxiety levels, financial and accommodation stress: 

I had been unemployed for 21/2 years and reentered the workforce in Jan 2014. Work was slow to build up so I received a lower pay packet early on and it grew. They've averaged the amount and arrived at a figure. The business I worked for has sinced merged, a document trail can't be established, my computer crashed 18 months ago, I lost all my pay emails. My only hope relies on being able to establish a payment trail via my bank receipts, which I have been encouraged to do.
Meanwhile I'm off work on sickness benefits after being injured at work, then suffering a heart attack, I can't return to work. I've just been advised of my sacking, via email, Boxing Day. Now I see my next payment is missing $80 odd dollars to repay this fictitious amount. Not only that but they've stopped my rent assistance, guess I'll have to forgo the next round of meds I need, oh yea, they've not renewed my Health Care Card too, so I'm no where near affording them !

How do you feel about the way the Government has handled this process?: 

I have to hope I can rectify this with more information, they've welcomed getting it, it's that it's so hard to obtain, I've lost my copies and the business I worked for cannot resupply them. My bank records now confirm the amounts, I now have to reconstruct them in a backwards fashion. I've heard others have had this method declined, I hope I'm successful.
Otherwise this is disgusting, it's calling me a thief, a fraud, it's a blight on me, all because "They" say so !