Centrelink must review welfare debts after tribunal casts further doubt on income averaging, senator says

Rex Patrick calls on the government to reassess all social security debts calculated unlawfully using averaging of payslips'

The independent senator Rex Patrick has called for a sweeping review of Centrelink welfare debts, after the federal government was again rebuked at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal over its methods.

The AAT, which reviews social security decisions, recently ruled in two decisions that debts imposed on two welfare recipients by Centrelink could not be upheld.