The Latest Breaking News from Centrelink

Job providers receiving millions of dollars for positions found by jobseekers themselves

Welfare advocates say there is ‘simply no reason’ for $3.6m in payments over past five years to agencies when jobs were found prior to engaging their service

The Guardian - AU · Mar 30, 2024

‘I just kept paying’: Indigenous people are being exploited by businesses using Centrepay debit scheme

Many of those who sign up are from regional or remote communities, speak English as a second or third language and have limited access to clothing, household goods and services

The Guardian - AU · Mar 29, 2024

‘I had no access’: ex-residents of controversial rehab centre say welfare payments were taken against their wishes

Guardian Australia investigation reveals role of Centrepay in controlling income of residents at WA religious centre Esther House

The Guardian - AU · Mar 28, 2024

Morning Mail: bulk-billing decline mapped, water battery breakthrough, Trump asset threat

Analysis of government data shows fall in GP clinics where all costs are covered; RMIT researchers take a step towards green, recyclable ‘water batteries’

The Guardian - AU · Feb 21, 2024

Job agencies suspending Centrelink payments at an alarming rate, data reveals

Exclusive: smaller Workforce Australia providers, including those catering to Indigenous jobseekers, have effectively suspended more than 90% of their caseloads

The Guardian - AU · Feb 21, 2024

Afternoon Update: Swiftmania hits Melbourne; 78-year-old robotax victim ‘distressed’; and New York sues ‘addictive’ social platforms

ATO faces scrutiny for pressuring people to repay old debts in a campaign drawing parallels with Centrelink’s robodebt scandal

The Guardian - AU · Feb 16, 2024

Services Australia apologises over Centrelink call centre performance as age pension claims hit by huge delays

New data reveals backlog of 1.1m claims across all payments while around half of all calls to Centrelink went unanswered in six-month period

The Guardian - AU · Feb 14, 2024

Indigenous women at risk from lack of DV legal funding

First Nations women face appallingly high rates of domestic and family violence, with stretched specialist legal services having to turn away clients or close.

AAP · Feb 4, 2024

Women trying to flee DV held back by income management

Indigenous, legal and community advocates have told a Senate inquiry that compulsory income management doesn't work and can have dire unintended consequences.

AAP · Jan 22, 2024

Jobseeker endured 11 weeks without Centrelink payments but was still forced to attend job agency appointments

Advocates say government failing to meet ‘basic obligation’ to process claims quickly after Tim McCabe spent weeks with ‘no income’

The Guardian - AU · Jan 20, 2024