Centrelink sorry after apparent error leaves woman with $3,500 debt and no income

Woman with mental health issues says she was kicked off Austudy because doctor’s certificate wasn’t processed

A Sydney woman battling mental health issues has told how she is “surviving off the charity of friends and family” after an apparent Centrelink bungle left her with a $3,500 welfare debt and no income for more than two months.

Charlotte Coulter, 29, told Guardian Australia she was wrongly kicked off the $276.55-a-week Austudy payment in March because Centrelink failed to process a doctor’s certificate.

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