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Turned out they owed me

Debt amount: 
$2490
Date debt issued: 
Monday, 1 September 2014
Period debt occurred: 
June 2011 to November 2012
Appealing Debt?: 
Yes but I lost
Tell us about your debt and how has this affected you? e.g. anxiety levels, financial and accommodation stress: 

Very stressed and upset and worrying
After being told had debt of 2500 contacted number on letter over 1 hour on phone was told to ring another number had also complained on centrelink site and uploaded bank statements from those periods
another long wait got thru on second phone number to be told can't help me but can put in an appeal and to ring the ombudsman. had to wait for complaints department to call also told not sure how long would take but might start taking money from me. got the call to be told lies that my employer had given them the breakdown in those periods and I had to supply payslips that i could not use bank statements chased up payslips. sent in their ridiculous webpage 1 file at a time then got a reply.
did not have a debt for parenting payment but still had a debt with newstart that went from 1000 to 500 then got a new pay g from centre link told to contact ATO and tell them new pay g summary. complained again, many hours not being answered on phone before and after work. was contacted weeks later money already been deducted from my payments that they actually owed me 90 from parenting payment and I owed 250 on new start so deducted the 90 and the 70 already taken from me I owed 70 I just said yes take the 70 can't deal with this again.

How do you feel about the way the Government has handled this process?: 

know I did not report incorrectly but couldn't deal with this 3 times they are crooks