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28 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
New: Stuart Robert says Services Australia will resume debt raising activity from 2 November (except in Victoria due to state of disaster). Debt recovery (that is, enforcing repayments) will recommence from February 2021. @AmyRemeikis
Full statement here.
Katy Gallagher: Do you agree with you Coalition colleagues that the current rate of jobseeker acts as a disincentive?
Ruston says it's too early to say at this point.
Ruston says "a body of evidence" suggested that employers in regional areas in particular (in agriculture and hospitality) were finding it hard to find workers. She's conceded the evidence the government has so far is anecdotal

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29 Oct
Services Australia up in front of #estimates now. Strap in folks. #auspol
First off, Labor's Jenny McAllister asks officials about how they identify customers who are experiencing family violence.
Services Australia made 75,000 referrals for customers to family violence support in the past year
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27 Oct
I will be tweeting Department of Social Services #estimates today. And filing to @GuardianAus blog #auspol
Just going through some DSS advertising contracts at the moment. Katy Gallagher wanted to ask about jobseeker but that'll be in the next session
DSS secretary Kathryn Campbell: "We have provided advice to the government on the rate of jobseeker."
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18 Sep
Quite a development in the #robodebt saga: The government lost 76 cases where the AAT said the debts weren't legally enforceable, Gordon Legal says.

It never appealed – and the decisions weren't made public. theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol
Most of these decisions were made in 2017. We'd previously only known about five or six. By not appealing, the government ensured that a higher level of the tribunal which publishes its decisions didn't rule against it.
Alan Tudge is also named in the statement as claim. For example, he is said to have received a brief on 1 March that stated “33% of Robodebt-raised debts ‘were changed to $0 on review/reassessment’”.
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30 Aug
One of the admin jobs Cassandra Francisco applied for this month had 796 applicants. The average has been 416.

Only 12 days after Melbourne hopes to leave stage 4, the feds will cut welfare benefits by $300 a fortnight.

theguardian.com/australia-news… #auspol #melbournelockdown
In general, the areas struggling most have also been hardest hit by the virus.

We estimate about 420,000 Melburnians now under stage 4 lockdown will be hit by the $300 cut to coronavirus supplement
Meanwhile, Victoria-wide Treasury analysis released today finds that since 26 June the number of unemployment benefit recipients rose by about 27,600, or 7.2%. theguardian.com/australia-news…
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21 Aug
The NDIS Commission has told the royal commission eight NDIS participants have died from Covid-19 during the pandemic. One NDIS worker has also died. #disabilityrc
The Commission is getting a bit of a pasting here for not being proactive in checking that providers are meeting their obligations, particularly during the pandemic
Oh dear. The commission's registrar, Samantha Taylor, is asked if "procedures and practices during the time of the coronavirus pandemic have not materially changed since pre-coronavirus?" She says: "That is correct"
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31 Jul
Top bureaucrats from Services Australia and DSS will be fronting the #robodebt Senate inquiry from 1pm. I will be live tweeting where I can. Lots of important questions, let's hope there are lots of answers too! #auspol
We're underway! I'm excited. Can't wait to count how many times we hear the public interest immunity claim invoked.
DSS secretary Kathryn Campbell is making an opening statement. She notes the program changed another of time "in response to feedback".
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