A warning: If you are a pensioner who decides to rent out a room because housing crisis, beware! Centrelink and the ATO will come after you with baseball bats. I tried it but it's not worth the trouble and financial pain! #Centrelink #ATO
#centrelink
ATO refers hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to a private debt collector – including people on Centrelink benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/27/ato-tax-repayments-debt-collector
The ATO is handballing thousands of people to Recoveriescorp. This misstep by the ATO is going to have disastrous consequences, like we saw with RoboDebt.
Recoveriescorp is a debt collector that's funded by private equity.
The business-model for private equity is buy-up other companies. This buy-up generates a massive debt. Companies that get consumed by a private equity firm are usually saddled with that debt. But, the reason those companies were up for sale is they were in bad shape. Now they've gone from underperforming to being in existential crisis. Their primary motivation becomes making as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, and by any means possible. Recoveriescorp is desperate to make money, and will hit anyone to make a buck.
What kind of company is Recoveriescorp?
Follow the money!
Recoveriescorp is owned by Nutun Australia Holdings Pty Ltd, which is part of Dove Bidco Pty Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Allegro Funds Pty Ltd.
Clear as mud.
How about Allegro Funds?
Back in January 2023, news emerged that PwC had been leaking secret Australian Government tax plans to corporations for up to ten years. PwC had abused its position as consultants to the Australian Government. Additionally, PwC ran what appears to me is a sham investigation to cover-up their own dirty deeds. (For more info, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PwC_tax_scandal).
As the result of this scandal, PwC lost A$680 million, about 20% of its overall income.
To extricate itself from the disaster of its own making, PwC spun-off the part of its business responsible for the acursed "Government Services". That was in June 2023. (For more info, see https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-25/pwc-appoints-new-ceo-will-sell-off-government-business/102521482). The core of new company was 117 former PwC partners, then filled-out with more than 1,500 other PwC staff. It was named Scyne Advisory.
In November 2023, PwC sold Scyne Advisory to Allegro Funds for $1.
You read that right: one dollar.
Now Recoveriescorp, owned by Allegro Funds and haunted by the ghost of Scyne Advisory (née PwC), has a fresh deal with the Australian Taxation Office. The ATO hasn't learned anything from its past mistakes. They did a deal with Recoveriescorp to act as a debt collector and try to claw money from people on Centrelink.
#AusPol #RoboDebt #ATO #AustralianTaxationOffice #Centrelink #Recoveriescorp #PwC #ScyneAdvisory #AllegroFunds
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Links to the ... wow ... redoubtable Asher Wolf looking at another Services Australia failure around Centrelink debts.
Benefit recipients are being treated so badly.
The Targeted Compliance Framework has corrupted the system and twisted the purposes of welfare payments into being a tool to oppress and demonise benefit recipients.
What you reckon Anthony Albanese?
Time to end this dog act?
Centrelink illegally cancelled Daniel’s jobseeker payment. He fought back against the system – and won
#Centrelink is evil
“Post-Robot Debt” https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/it-error-welfare-payments-australia/
Mutual Obligation (T)error systemic
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/05/australia-mutual-obligation-system-it-system-error
#AUWU #centrelink #Dole
#JobSeeker #YouthAllowance #ParentingPayment #Robodebt #unemployed
SBS has a great TV series for on demand The People vs RobotDebt #robodebt #centrelink #sbs
Deeming rates have increased after a five-year freeze. Here’s how that could impact pension payments
Five years after being slashed…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AgePension #agedpension #AU #Australia #centrelink #Centrelinkpayments #CostofLiving #COVID-19measures #Deemingrates #pandemic #pension #pensionage #Pensionpaymentchanges #Pensionpaymentincrease #pensionpayments #pensioner #welfarepayments #Whatarethenewdeemingrates? #WhatdoesDeemingmean? #Whatisdeeming?
https://www.newsbeep.com/140896/
The robodebt class action settlement may be the biggest in Australian history – but the trauma isn’t over | Peter Whiteford https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/05/robodebt-class-action-settlement-biggest-in-australian-history-but-trauma-isnt-over #Centrelinkdebtrecovery #Australianpolitics #Australianews #Centrelink #Welfare
Robodebt victims win record $548.5m settlement from government, taking total payout to $2.4bn
sennalink headlines 🙄
no wonder nobody I know pays any attention to the murdoch press
yeah, nah… i never applied for a part time job at the supermarket because if i did i would have to go to sennalink and draw attention to myself.
i don’t mind working, but the option remains too risky, cos the government has not fixed sennalink, nor has it made a big noise about restoring the presumption of innocence.
#Auspol #Crapitalism #MurdTheTurd #Centrelink #Robodebt #GovernmentsHeyCantLiveWithoutThemCantLiveWithThem
#CantStopThinkingAboutKathrynCampbellWhoNeverThoughtAboutUs
I am a Robodebt whistleblower. I know what it’s like to be punished for speaking out and why protection is urgent | Jeannie-Marie Blake https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/i-am-a-robodebt-whistleblower-i-know-what-its-like-to-be-punished-for-speaking-out-and-why-protection-is-urgent #Royalcommissionintorobodebt #Centrelinkdebtrecovery #Australianpolitics #Centrelink #Welfare
I cannot login to #mygovid for #centrelink because I have to get past Updated terms of use but when I tick box and click Next it clears checkbox and increments counter for retry in URL - infinite loop - I have tried #passkey and #digitalid and both fail at tick box on updated terms - I tried #firefox and #googlechrome and #edge and cleared cookies and none work - ring MyGov call centre tomorrow on 132307 - in Web Developer Tools in Firefox, this page has cookie error dtCookie rejected for invalid domain #dynatrace #config #error #javascript
So, the news is in! Peter #Dutton has successfully defended his seat at #Centrelink
@frogglin I wish you both luck. #Centrelink are painful to deal with. Breathe.
I guess Centrelink learned absolutely nothing from Robodebt. And why would they? They were never held accountable. Now more people have died.
Having dubious pleasure of dealing with the Mainz Arbeitsagentur by proxy, for the person taking over my old lease, and much like #Centrelink a core goal seems to be to make the process so hard that never being on welfare is the more attractive option. We started this process 4 weeks ago (!) and now they are asking for details that are in the contract before they will approve it.
Someone needs to spend a very long time in a very small room for this. But as it affects only the poor and helpless, I imagine there will be no consequences.
#AusPol #Welfare #Centrelink
Exclusive: Ten dead after welfare glitch ignored by government | The Saturday Paper
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/02/15/exclusive-ten-dead-after-welfare-glitch-ignored-government#mtr
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