An analysis of the Commonwealth Ombudsman report finding more than 100,000 Centrelink files are affected by 'income apportionment' -- an unlawful method of calculating debts -- from 2003 to 2020.
Is income apportionment something that only affected those with (accused) debts and/or those under some sort of review? The thing I'm wondering is if their practice and understanding involved an incorrect way of calculating entitlements, that may have extended to people that were not accused of a debt, or not under review, and so other groups of people may have been underpaid. You may have covered this somewhere and I missed it.
Is income apportionment something that only affected those with (accused) debts and/or those under some sort of review? The thing I'm wondering is if their practice and understanding involved an incorrect way of calculating entitlements, that may have extended to people that were not accused of a debt, or not under review, and so other groups of people may have been underpaid. You may have covered this somewhere and I missed it.