What is behind Centerlink overpayment issue

Centrelink signs in Melbourne, Saturday, June, 25, 2016.

Welfare recipients in Canterbury-Bankstown may be tested for tillegal drugs as part of a government trial. Source: AAP

Centrelink overpaid $2.84 billion to welfare recipients last financial year but the Turnbull government only recouped half the cash.



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