Senate debates Questions without Notice

Pensions and Benefits


Carol Brown

Carol Brown Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Tourism

2:52 pm

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Government Services, Senator Ruston. In May, Anastasia McCardel—the mother of Bruce McCardel, who was in receipt of a disability pension until he died in November last year—received a call from a Centrelink officer and was told her son, Bruce McCardel, owed a debt of $6,744.52. Ms McCardel has said:

I wanted to know how they thought Bruce would have worked his way through his paperwork when he actually was dead.

What advice can the minister give Ms McCardel?

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