Centrelink tells receptionist she 借りがあるs them $65,000 in the a letter she 述べるs as 'sheer terror'

By HOLLY HALES FOR NCA NEWSWIRE

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An 年輩の pensioner has 明らかにする／漏らすd how her life was turned 'upside 負かす／撃墜する' after 存在 told she had to 支払う／賃金 支援する Centrelink $65,000 as part of its bungled robodebt 計画／陰謀.

Rosemary Gay, from Ballarat in Victoria, told the robodebt 王室の （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 in Brisbane on Monday she experienced 'sheer terror' after a letter 警告するd she had just two weeks to 支払う／賃金 up.

The 76-year-old said the message （機の）カム on September 29, 2016 and had 明言する／公表するd that Centrelink had received （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） from the ATO about her 雇用 income.

The income referred to in the letter was $17,436 Ms Gay said she made as a part-time receptionist between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2011, while working at a 輸送（する） company in Ballarat.

However, Centrelink said the 量s she 宣言するd were different from what was 現実に earned, something Ms Gay said left her in 'shock' and 'surprised'.

'The data that I 供給するd to them of my 収入s would be 正確に／まさに the same as what would be 含む／封じ込めるd in my group 証明書 in my 税金 return at the end of that 財政上の year,' she said.

Pensioner Rosemary Gay told the robodebt royal commission on Monday that she received a bill from Centrelink demanding she pay back $65,000

Pensioner Rosemary Gay told the robodebt 王室の （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 o n Monday that she received a 法案 from Centrelink 需要・要求するing she 支払う／賃金 支援する $65,000

After checking the paperwork was the same as what she had 報告（する）／憶測d, Ms Gay thought the 事柄 would be sorted.

'I 推定するd that once I'd 確認するd that (量) was in my group 証明書, that would be the end,' she said.

'That they would correlate that to be the same as what I had 報告（する）／憶測d to them, and 推定する／予想するd that would be the end of it.'

Ms Gay had been 雇うd on a 永久の, part-time basis at the time and was paid around $22 an hour for 14 hours' work a week, she said.

However, on October 12, 2016 Ms Gay received a 負債 notice for $64,998.17, something she said left her in despair.

The mammoth 支払い（額）, more than three times her 年次の salary, was 予定 in いっそう少なく than a month, she said.

'It turned my life upside 負かす／撃墜する. It was just sheer terror that I 借りがあるd a 人物／姿／数字 which was just such a 抱擁する 量, that I had never earned that much money. How could I 借りがある that much money and I had to come up with it in three or four weeks. It was just sheer terror,' she said.

'I just wasn't able to see the forest for the trees. I wasn't able to see what I had to do.?

'All I could see was that I may be 直面するd with selling my home and losing everything that I had worked for in my 70 years and I just saw it all going away 即時に.'

'My mental health and physical health, at that stage, were at a very low ebb,' Ms Gay said. Above, queues at Centrelink

?'My mental health and physical health, at that 行う／開催する／段階, were at a very low ebb,' Ms Gay said. Above, 列s at Centrelink

When Ms Gay 宿泊するd a 論争 with Centrelink, $133 a week began 存在 taken from her 年金 as a 返済 before 存在 lowered to $60 a fortnight.

'It was a very dark period of time for me and one that is very difficult to re-live. My mental health and physical health, at that 行う／開催する／段階, were at a very low ebb,' she said.

However, on December 7 of the same year, Ms Gay said she was sent a letter from Centrelink 説 her 負債 was an error and the 訂正する 量 was $120.33.

'I was shocked and angry to think that they could 最初 原因（となる） such a traumatic experience to everybody 接近ing support from a 年金,' she said.

'That they could turn someone's life upside 負かす／撃墜する and still get it so wrong over and over again.'

The 王室の （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 is 目的（とする）ing to 調査／捜査する how Australians' 年次の 税金 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） was used to 決定する 普通の／平均（する） fortnightly 収入s and automatically 設立する 福利事業 負債s.

The practice was 支配するd unlawful by the 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 in 2019 and is believed to have wrongfully 回復するd more than $750 million from 381,000 people.

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