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IT system Display Issue - do I have a debt or not??!

Debt amount: 
$2023
Date debt issued: 
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Period debt occurred: 
May 2012 to June 2012
Payment Type: 
Newstart Allowance
Appealing Debt?: 
Yes & I won
Tell us about your debt and how has this affected you? e.g. anxiety levels, financial and accommodation stress: 

They sent me a letter demanding that I owe money from 5 years ago, I need to provide proof that I haven't work for 2 month when I was on the newstart allowance. Even though when I apply for newstart , i have to provide all the proof that I was not working.

I have to take time off to find that proof for them, contact my employee 5 years ago to give them the information. It makes me feel very stressed.

After I provide proof , their systems still saying that I owe money, even though the compliance say that I don't owe any money at all.

Their items system, Mygov, centrelink site say that I owe money. when I call up the compliance said that there is an error in IT system and they can't do anything about it.

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

I do not think they know what they are doing there, one person refer me to someone else and so on, but their IT system is still not displaying properly.