6 January 2017
SBS
Federal MP Anthony Albanese has joined with two of his constituents Tony Barbar and Curtis Dickson to take aim at the federal government over the new automated debt recovery system.
They are two in a growing number of cases that have emerged of people receiving written demands for money they say they do not owe.
"Malcolm Turnbull is the grinch who stole Christmas from some of the most vulnerable Australians in our community," Mr Albanese said.
"This Centrelink debt debacle has had an enormous impact on thousands of Australians."
Mr Barbar, 29, has been told he owes more than $4500 after he took sick leave from his job in 2010 to undergo chemotherapy for cancer, and now needs to prove he doesn't.
"He's an honest man," Mr Albanese said.
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