TY  - Report

AU  - Commonwealth Ombudsman



PY  - 2012
T1  - Review of Centrelink income management decisions in the Northern Territory
PB  - Commonwealth Ombudsman's Office


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-29742
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/29742

AB  - 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:
ER  -