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The tax office’s increased reliance on Recoveriescorp has coincided with a spike in complaints to the watchdogGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian Taxation Office has awarded the private debt collector Recoveriescor…
Exclusive: As jobseekers continue to have payments suspended, advocates call for the regime to be stopped until it’s proven to be lawfulGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCentrelink has been issuing payment suspension notices to…
Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the tripA woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never checked in or travelled has had her child benefit stopped by the UK government. Tax …
Half-measures would have little or no meaningful impact on child poverty rates, Resolution Foundation analysis findsFailure to abolish the two-child benefit limit would wreck the government’s child poverty ambitions and risk creating levels of hardship…
Inspector general of taxation and ombudsman, Ruth Owen, says she is receiving an ‘increasing number’ of complaints about tax officeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe ATO must be considerate of a person’s circumstances, Austr…
Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital Parents in Northern Ireland have had their child support payments stopped as part of the UK government’s crackdown on alleged benefit fraud s…
Exclusive: Services Australia spokesperson says automatic BPay payments and Centrelink being unable to contact customers may be to blameFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastApp…
Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of societyDecades of efforts by mainstream politicians to roll back welfare programmes have given rise to an “extremely dangerous” discourse that has helpe…
Rachel Reeves understood to be eyeing cuts to Motability scheme as she tries to plug hole in country’s financesRachel Reeves has said she “can’t leave welfare untouched” this parliament, with the Treasury understood to be considering axing up to £1bn i…
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereLindsay Hoyle starts by telling MPs that speakers from the parliaments in Fiji and Ukraine are in the gallery. And he says it is four years to the day since David Amess was murdered.It’s PMQs…