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Centrelink system 'working incredibly well': Porter

3 January 2017
Hamish Macdonald
RN Breakfast

Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter, denies there is an issue with Centrelink's automated system.

'Since the start of the financial year we've sent out 169,000 review letters. These are not debt letters. These are letters that use automated cross-referencing information from the ATO to information received at Centrelink, which shows there might be a discrepancy', he says.

'The complaint rate is running at .16 per cent. That's only 276 complaints from those 169,000 letters. That process has raised $300 million worth of money back to the taxpayer which was overpaid.'

'From what we've seen in a high volume system it's actually working incredibly well'.

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