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Ricardo Menéndez March: Green Party Social Development Spokesperson on the Ministry of Social Development's incorrect benefit processing
Manage episode 453692183 series 2098280
The Green Party's concerned beneficiaries will be slapped with massive debt due to the Ministry of Social Development's mistakes.
MSD's revealed nearly 1-in-4 benefit entitlements aren't being processed correctly.
It's cited complexity of cases, systems challenges and weakness within its internal capability, and says accuracy's been declining for three or four years.
Greens Social Development spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March told Ryan Bridge MSD hasn't confirmed it won't order thousands of dollars from those it's overpaid.
He says that would push people further down the poverty line and into more hardship as they try to repay it.
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Manage episode 453692183 series 2098280
The Green Party's concerned beneficiaries will be slapped with massive debt due to the Ministry of Social Development's mistakes.
MSD's revealed nearly 1-in-4 benefit entitlements aren't being processed correctly.
It's cited complexity of cases, systems challenges and weakness within its internal capability, and says accuracy's been declining for three or four years.
Greens Social Development spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March told Ryan Bridge MSD hasn't confirmed it won't order thousands of dollars from those it's overpaid.
He says that would push people further down the poverty line and into more hardship as they try to repay it.
LISTEN ABOVE
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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