When I received my debt advise, I felt utterly outraged to how such a debt could possibly occur. To my full knowledge and understanding I have reported my income on time and correctly. I am absolutely confused and deeply anxious. Not to this day have I received a full explanation to how such a debt was apparently created. I live off a casual wage with an income of approx. $800 a forth night. Every forth night, Centrelink is now deducting money from my Newstart payment in order to retrieve the debt. Each and every day now I am worried to what the next day brings. I rely on my car in order to work. At the moment it is extremely difficult for me to be able to maintain paying for my daily living costs. This situation causes me a lot of stress, its absolutely overwhelming. I am experiencing feelings of depression, fear and anger.
How is it that, for the past 3 years I was payed Tax back, when according to the Tax Office in fact a debt existed? So many question marks????
There can not be 20,000 Australians a week committing "Fraud", which is what they make me feel I have done. They have made me feel like a cheat and a criminal