Source: The Guardian
Ombudsman report finds Revenue NSW engaged in ‘maladministration’ by taking money directly out of millions of bank accounts
The New South Wales government’s debt collection agency broke the law when it used an automated system to withdraw money from millions of bank accounts to claw back unpaid fines, a scathing report has found.
The NSW ombudsman Paul Miller’s report, released on Tuesday, found Revenue NSW’s use of AI to generate garnishee orders broke the law from its introduction in 2016 until 2019, and that it was “wrong” until March 2022.
A garnishee order is when Revenue NSW takes money directly out of people’s bank accounts if they have defaulted on their debt repayments, and have not responded to repeated debt recovery notices.
Revenue NSW does not have to go to court to issue a garnishee order. Since 2016, the agency has used machine learning technology to assist it to generate high volumes of garnishee orders each day.
The ombudsman started investigating the scheme in 2016 after its introduction prompted a large number of complaints.
An earlier report, released in 2021, found Revenue NSW had unlawfully used the system to recover fines from financially vulnerable people, in some cases draining bank accounts and leaving people unable to buy food.
While in opposition, NSW Labor had labelled the scheme “Robodebt 2.0”. The then-Coalition government rejected those comparisons.
In its report released on Tuesday, the ombudsman found Revenue NSW engaged in “maladministration”.
Revenue NSW has obtained advice from the solicitor general confirming the version of the system that has been in place since May 2022 is lawful.
But the ombudsman found the agency broke the law with the garnishee order system it had in place from January 2016 to March 2019.
Revenue NSW has obtained advice from the solicitor general confirming the version of the system that has been in place since May 2022 is lawful.
Despite undergoing some changes, the scheme was “wrong” between March 2019 to March 2022 because it did not provide decision-makers with clear reasoning and evidence, or clearly and fully record those decisions.
Among the ombudsman’s recommendations is for Revenue NSW to provide better information to people who owe debts, including publishing on its website how they may be challenged.
Revenue NSW should also include instructions in its garnishee orders reminding banks not to recover any Centrelink “saved amounts”, and introduce safeguards to ensure “protected amounts” are left in people’s banks accounts after garnishee action.
The agency has applied a “protected amounts” policy since March 2019, meaning the minimum amount it must leave in someone’s bank account after garnishee action. The current minimum protected amount is $587.50.
The finance minister, Courtney Houssos, said the government was committed to implementing the ombudsman’s recommendations in full and had “already begun that work”.
“While garnishee orders can be an important tool of last resort to recover fines and state debts, it is crucial they are implemented in a fair and equitable way,” she said.
Harry Palmer Comments
NSW bully boy government debt collection have the power to cancel a persons drivers license over outstanding debt which in most instances removes that persons ability to earn money to pay the debt.
Will the public servants who engineered this criminal act face justice or submit to a fine coat of White Wash by our ever vigilant unaccountable government?
Indeed!
As the U.S. economy serves as the economic driver behind the other western economies, this is where people should be focusing their attention. And especially the movements of the Ten Year U.S. Treasury Yields, which serves as the market indicator for what’s really going on.
But what’s been going here is that other countries have stopped buying U.S. debt (Treasuries), so right now, the only buyer of U.S. Government debt is the Federal Reserve, which has now become the buyer of last resort. This week a ‘mystery buyer’ (guess who?), just bought huge amounts of debt which caused the Ten Year Yield to drop and essentially prop up the collapsing economy.
So what does this do?, well of course, – huge amounts of new currency has to be mouse-clicked into existence, which results with a corresponding currency devaluation and further exponential inflation.
Why do you think inflation is going through the roof and people can no longer make ends meet?
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And then back to the U.S. banking system.
We also have the FDIC ‘problem bank list’ [see Investopedia], which is published quarterly to a ‘confidential readership’ [and we are not even allowed to know who gets this list!], whose latest report reveals that we now have the largest amount of problem banks since 2021.
Why can’t we know about this list, but some can?, well of course, – because they can short the bank and make billions, – and you can’t.
The balance sheets of the troubled institutions on this list are loaded with bad debts and loans, and these are not regional banks, – but mega-banks.
And just think, people keep their savings in these institutions and are not allowed to know about this list, – so can’t get their savings out.
The whole banking system is being consolidated, – get your savings out of these institutions.
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And whilst people are pondering those having their bank accounts pilfered by debt collectors, don’t for one second think you are smarter than them, as you are all being robbed of your wealth on an exponential daily basis via the biggest thief of all – inflation.
What they have in store for you will blow your minds.
If fifteen years ago, people had been buying gold and silver instead of tattoos, they’d probably realise that boring old gold has been rising by about 7-8% per year, which in actuality, – means your currency has been devaluing by this amount, – let that sink in.
From the article – “Will the public servants who engineered this criminal act face justice or submit to a fine coat of White Wash by our ever vigilant unaccountable government?”
And there’s the rub, folks.
ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY.
Because they DO NOT WORK FOR US, and they DO NOT ANSWER TO US, because they’re hired agents of FOREIGN-OWNED CORPORATIONS.
And johnwilsonbds said – “Indict them all and let’s see what prison sentences fair dinkum juries will impose.”
… and who WOULDN’T agree with that sentiment?
But it’s only a sentiment, because it’s NOT going to happen so long as we continue to play THEIR game by THEIR rules in THEIR sandbox.
They are CORPORATIONS, folks – ALL of them. And guess what? YOU ARE NOT shareholders, so YOU have NO SAY at all in what policies they choose to impose on us.
And Dr. said – “Some folks have to learn the hard way.”
Indeed, how much MORE evidence do we need that BANKS ARE UNSAFE and CANNOT BE TRUSTED? What will it take to motivate the Useless Eaters to get their money OUT OF THE BANKS while they still CAN?
Surely, folks, you DO KNOW that our fake corporate “government” passed “laws” (ie, the corporate policy of the foreign-owned COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CORPORATION) way back in 2018 that convert ANY AND ALL BANK DEPOSITS into UNSECURED INVESTMENTS which are the BANKS’ PROPERTY, right?
It was Scotty from Marketing who DID that, just so we’re clear. You know, THAT Scotty from Marketing who just finished POISONING Australia with a fake “vaccine” BIOWEAPON before he ran for the hills with his $52 MILLION Blood Money Bonus. You think he might have been IN ON SOMETHING?
And THAT means that the blood-sucking banks don’t have to give you diddly squat when you ask for it, becuase it’s THEIR money, NOT yours. Has anyone noticed a growing trend lately, where the banks REFUSE to hand over “your” cash, and arbitrarily LOCK PEOPLES ACCOUNTS for reasons decided by the BANKS?
That’s because they CAN. Scotty from Marketing made it all LEGAL way back in 2018. It’s NOT YOUR MONEY, folks, the BANKS own it now, and HAVE since 2018. Have you noticed that the banks are getting BOLDER and more BLATANT as the Great Reset gets CLOSER and CLOSER?
I know it’s probably WAY too much to hope that people in general will WAKE UP. So maybe just THINK on that, folks, and UNDERSTAND the IMMINENT PERIL we now face with the push to BAN CASH. If you DON’T have cash, then whatever you DO have will be in a BANK somewhere – and that’s THEIR money, NOT yours.
And ANOTHER little detail – the BANK BAIL-IN laws, folks. ALSO pushed into “LAW” by Scotty from Marketing way back in 2018. When the market “crashes” or there’s some sort of “financial crisis”, the BANKS get to grab EVERYTHING in ALL OF “YOUR” bank accounts, and KEEP IT FOREVER. That’s because it’s ALREADY THEIR MONEY – it’s “unsecured investments”, so you have NO CLAIM to it.
Are you ready for Universal Basic Income, folks? No cash, just CBDCs stored in digital bank accounts tied to your Digital ID which EXPIRE if you don’t use it by the cutoff date. CBDCs that only work when THEY ALLOW THEM to work (so you only get to spend it on what THEY ALLOW YOU to spend it on).
It’s ALREADY THERE, folks, all the systems are ALREADY IN PLACE. They just haven’t admitted it yet, because FIRST they need to TAKE AWAY ALL CASH and get us all in an inescapable stranglehold with the “voluntary” Digital ID.
And then we’re f*cked. You vil own NOTHING, you vil stay in your 15-minute cities, and you vil eat ZE BUGS. But only if you get your monthly injection, otherwise you vil STARVE and DIE and then you vil be recycled to feed the starving masses.
And Joe Bogan said – “Why doesn’t everyone start buying gold and silver, you know, National Strike…”
Well, for starters, to buy Gold and Silver, first you need some spare cash to throw at it. Not so easy for people literally scratching to get by, let alone living in cars and tents and otherwise starving on the streets as AnAL imports MILLIONS of REPLACEMENTS for the poisoned and dying Australian population.
BUT it’s still VERY GOOD advice under current circumstances. People of Indian origin don’t seem to have any trouble grasping the concept. Either precious metals or CASH, or both. Anything but fake digits in blood-sucking bank accounts.
Meanwhile, Commo John’s National Strike seems to be about the ONLY coherent plan of fight-back against these mongrel foreign-owned Globalist corporations that have our country by the throat. And yet, as of right now less than 7,500 patriots have committed their support, out of 26 MILLION people.
Indolent, insoucient, uninformed, confused, damaged, willingly blind, gluttons for punishment, Stockholm Syndrome, so many people want to just “get back to normal”. But that train left the station long ago and it’s NOT COMING BACK.
I predict MOUNTAINS of roadkill in the coming months and years. The bulk of the population just don’t seem to care, so it’s going to get ugly, folks, REAL ugly, but no-one can say that we didn’t try to warn them.
From your comments, I can see that most of you still don’t realize that every aspect of our Australian system of government has been captured by being corporated unlawfully, and on top of that, we have not had a correctly or traditionally or lawfuul installed Monarch since Queen Victoria died 22 days after Federation of 1901.
The Letters Patent that She supplied to the 1st Governor General lost all future authority to OK new laws when She died, but our political class refused to acknowledge that fact and decided that they were ongoing, and they have used them as a scam ever since.When She died, we got a caretaker government which was empowered for a short while to maintain only the status quo, not new laws, and the new Monarch had to be accepted by referendum as Her Being and Style and Title and the transfer of authority had to be correctly and lawfully recognized by we, the people. But out very deceptive government officials decided to overlook these facts and do things just as they pleased. So nothing was recorded about anything in Hansard to not raise any suspicion about there unlawful procedures.
Consequently, no laws made since Federation have been signed of, on behalf of a legitimate Monarch since Federation and Queen Victoria’s death on the 22nd of January, 1901.
Soooooo, all these monies paid for fines and rates and taxes and every other scam that benefited the pockets of the bankers that took over Australia by corporatising it as a business for profit….it and all it’s departments, parliaments and agencies, have freely taken your hard earned money under unlawful false pretences, and they pretend to be actual government…SPER, Transport Dept.,Police Forces, Treasury, Taxation Dept., Councils, taxing wages, goods and services….all this they collect and send in bulk to the bankrrs at the City of London, and they make up budgets that they simply print money to match, and then use parliament to pass false legislations and statutes that compel us to pay that back.
This makes us DEBT SLAVES for perpetuity.
It is way past time to stop filling their coffers willingly.
Ha ha Ha they call it MALADMINISTRATION NO it is called THEFT or as the Crimes Act 1900 NSW calls it LARCENY WITH TEN YEARS IN PRISON.
I was going to say “welcome to the future” but I hope it’s not derogatory to future people. Why doesn’t everyone start buying gold and silver, you know, National Strike, use cash, a lady in the shop the other day said she took $1000 out of the bank for de-banking day Tuesday I think a couple of weeks ago,,,, then she used her card to buy. You’ll be sorry
Some folks have to learn the hard way.
Rule 1. Only keep as much money in a bank as you are prepared to lose.
Rule 2. Refer to Rule 1.
Our Government is a Corporation…Our Constitution is irrelevant?
Revenue NSW has an Australian Business Number
81913830179
Anne
May 6, 2024 at 4:43 pm
“This is disgusting, welcome to China everyone”
China does not behave that way, please keep your derogatory comments to yourself.
All the little Maos in the Marxist skoolz should be learning Dong Fang Hong and studying the little red book for their struggle sessions over ‘stolen generations’ and White Privledge and evilwhiteracistsettlercolonial government.
Unadulterated THEFT. Any so-called “legislation” that allows such criminal behaviour is downright TREASON. Indict them all and let’s see what prison sentences fair dinkum juries will impose.
This is disgusting, welcome to China everyone
Surely can not be Constitutional
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