Centrelink’s debt mistake: ‘there’s no way I could explain to them’ – The Guardian
When Centrelinks letter arrived two weeks before Christmas, Michael Griffin instinctively knew he was going to be unfairly trapped. So he meticulously documented, step-by-step, how the system wrongly deemed him to have a $3,197 debt. Griffins ordeal began when he received the standardised letter from Centrelink, telling him there was a discrepancy between income information…