%T Review of Centrelink income management decisions in the Northern Territory
%A Commonwealth Ombudsman



%I Commonwealth Ombudsman's Office
%D 2012

%K Social security, %K Welfare state, %K Welfare recipients



%U https://apo.org.au/node/29742

%X Income management (IM) has applied in the Northern Territory (NT) since 2007. IM is designed to ensure that income support payments are used to pay for necessary goods and services rather than discretionary items and activities. Initially targeting Indigenous Australians living in remote and very remote communities, it has been applied across the entire NT, depending on a person‘s payment circumstances, since mid-2010.
This report details reviews of two areas of Centrelink‘s IM decision making, namely:
%9 Report