Debt amount:
$9000
Date debt issued:
Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Period debt occurred:
July 2013
Has your case been referred to a collection agency?:
No
Payment Type:
Austudy
Appealing Debt?:
I don't know how to
Tell us about your debt and how has this affected you? e.g. anxiety levels, financial and accommodation stress:
I was studying claiming Austudy or youth allowance or something then suffered a horrific ordeal which left me incapacitated with severe PTSD, I coudn't seek help and continued to live off the student benefit but was failing all my uni subjects. Still dealing with trying not to kill myself to end the pain and I got hit with getting cut off the benefit and getting a $9000 debt. I've been paying $80 a fortnight since trying to pay it off but that means I find it hard to eat well or maintain a healthy life so more depression and poverty have left me broken. Fuck those office bound troglodyte cunts.
How do you feel about the way the Government has handled this process?:
Confused as to whether the government and social security is about helping people and society or about breaking people to make society worse.