Happy Christmas from Centrelink – your welfare payments have been stopped

Automated systems labelled ‘heartless’ as email and text notifications ruin holiday

It was some way to start Christmas morning – a message telling Irina that her parenting payment had been suspended.

“I am the only person my child has,” the single mother of a five-year-old daughter said, “and she’s looking to me on Christmas morning to take the lead and I’m just sitting there with tears streaming down my face.”

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