Back in august. Centerlink told me i had to start a parent next program. In starting that program. I was told i should

Customer: Hey there. So back in august. Centerlink told me i had to start a parent next program. In starting that program. I was told i should of been reporting my income. I was never told and have no record that i had to report for the past 5 yrs. So i rang to fix this up. In doing so i was told i owe centerlink $15000. For over payments. And they cut my payments of straight away. I asked for a review, that resulted in another $5000 being added to the total. I was told i had under estimated my husband income for the pasy 3 yrs. Which i had been updating as i knew the new amounts. They picked up on over paying child care last year, so we were already on a payment plan for $2600 , For over payment. My husband does his take return every year and we always update the amount. I asked for it to be reviewed again. To have a gentleman ring me really rudely asking why is looking into it. I said i cant work out how on earth we own them $20000. I updated my estimates, we does our tax return each year, so they get the updates from that and also we do our child support with CSA so they know how much of that we get back. The guy came back and said the Ato were slow in sending centrelink a copy of my husband tax return and thats how is resulted in overpayments. I havent received a cent from centrelink now since august. We are generally struggleing to break even each week, little to try and pay back that ,money. My kids used to play sports, we can no longer afford to send then to anything.
JA: Have you spoken to an attorney about this?
Customer: What else can i do
JA: What other steps have you taken so far?
Customer: The guy i spoke to was from an autherised review officer from centrelink
JA: Anything else you want the Lawyer to know before I connect you?
Customer: Not that i can think of
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