Department of Human Services bosses address reports a Centrelink recipient committed suicide over a debt recovery notice
Rhys Cauzzo, who battled depression, took his own life in January of this year.
AFTER months of heartbreaking stories from those caught up in the Centrelink crisis, it was almost a tragic inevitability.
Rhys Cauzzo, 28, took his own life after he was chased by debt collectors who claimed he owed the government agency $17,000 in overpaid benefits.
His family has been left wondering how their kind, creative son and brother became just the latest sad tale in this ongoing debacle, in which those responsible refuse to admit there is even a problem.
Before he died, Rhys sketched pictures in his notebooks of a stick man holding …
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