But "the debts" do not actually exist in all cases. My son was issued with a debt notice from the 2017 tax year. Halfway through that year, he graduated from being a student receiving youth allowance (and reporting fortnightly on his part-time job wages) to being a full-time worker earning a significant income. Centrelink then matched data from the ATO from the 2017 year and issued him with a $2000+ debt. Not wishing to spend days of his life hunting down old payslips, spending hours on the phone to Centrelink and fully knowing the debt was bogus, he simply paid up. How many others in that situation did likewise?
