I am trying to pick up the fragments of my life

Debt amount:

$6000

Has your case been referred to a collection agency?:

Yes

Payment Type:

Parenting Payment

Appealing Debt?:

Yes in process

Tell us about your debt and how has this affected you? e.g. anxiety levels, financial and accommodation stress:

I had an emotional breakdown before Christmas, resulting in my choice to leave work because of my mental illness and circumstances and extra stress this put on me trying to work out how to deal with it.
I broke down had to make an emergency visit to the doctors.

Soon after my sister passed away and I have been unemployed since.
I am trying to pick up the fragments of my life and am raising a now 9 year old child working and trying my best to do the right thing.

It is unfair and cruel to target me, the child's mother for 3 years when she was of 2 to 5 years of age.
It is atrocious behavior to be chasing me for this money.
I reported my earnings to the best of my knowledge at the time.

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

Horribly. I was given false information.
I couldn't bare to wait or enter an office without great anxiety.
Lost. Helpless. Perhaps needing to file bankruptcy. Incompetent. Degrading. Forceful. Not enough information.