Australia employment department announces more payment system pauses due to it not ‘operating in alignment with the law’
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Thousands of people may have had their social security payments wrongly reduced or cancelled because the mutual obligations system was not “operating in alignment with the law”.
On Friday, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) announced it had paused more payment reductions and cancellations, with more than 10,000 people understood to be affected.
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