{"id":34986,"date":"2019-09-24T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34986"},"modified":"2019-09-24T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T09:12:06","slug":"huge-rise-in-centrelink-seizing-tax-returns-to-repay-robodebts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34986","title":{"rendered":"Huge rise in Centrelink seizing tax returns to repay robodebts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The value of levy refunds confiscated by Centrelink for robodebts and welfare overpayments doubled in 2018 -1 9<\/p>\n<p>Centrelink has dramatically ramped up its seizure of taxation refunds to target past welfare recipients over robodebts and other welfare overpayments, brand-new figures reveal.<\/p>\n<p>In a response to a Senate question on notice, the Department of Human Service demonstrated it recovered $63.4 m in 2018 -1 9 by asking <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.dss.gov.au\/guide-social-security-law\/6\/7\/2\/50\">the Australian Tax Office to reclaim<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/guides.dss.gov.au\/guide-social-security-law\/6\/7\/2\/50\"> a person&rsquo;s tax refund to pay an outstanding obligation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/sep\/23\/huge-rise-in-centrelink-seizing-tax-returns-to-repay-robodebts\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/sep\/23\/huge-rise-in-centrelink-seizing-tax-returns-to-repay-robodebts\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of levy refunds confiscated by Centrelink for robodebts and welfare overpayments doubled in 2018 -1 9 Centrelink has dramatically ramped up its seizure of taxation refunds to target past welfare recipients over robodebts and other welfare overpayments, brand-new figures reveal. In a response to a Senate question on notice, the Department of Human &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19478,19850,19849],"class_list":["post-34986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-australia-news","tag-bill-shorten","tag-centrelink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/30001569316326.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}