Administration fees for debit system should be covered by business but renters – including a disability pensioner – have still been made to pay
has revealed multiple failings with Centrepay, a system allowing businesses early access to welfare payments, prior to money hitting a welfare recipient’s bank account.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Ben Cording, the lead community eduction lawyer at Tenants Victoria, said financial counsellors in his state also had seen the fee being passed on. The low fee meant individuals were unlikely to challenge it themselves, meaning the problem went unaddressed legally.
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