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the Specialist Reporting Team's Evan Young and social affairs correspondent Norman Hermant

Mutual obligations processes tightened after Legalise Cannabis NSW allowed to use Centrelink recipients as volunteers

The government is cracking down on which organisations can use Centrelink recipients chasing mutual obligations points as volunteers. (ABC News: Curtis Rodda)

Organisations wanting to use job seekers chasing mutual obligations points as volunteers will find it tougher to be approved, after the government agency responsible for Centrelink admitted to mistakenly allowing a political party onto a list of accepted bodies.

The ABC can reveal Legalise Cannabis NSW, which is on track to win a seat in the NSW parliament after last weekend's election, was allowed to sign up to become an "approved voluntary work organisation" for the purposes of mutual obligations.

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