The ‘double standard’ behind Centrelink’s jobkeeper debt recovery

More than 11,000 jobkeeper recipients have received debt letters from the Australian government asking them to pay back welfare payments they received during the Covid pandemic. Meanwhile, the Coalition is resisting calls to claw back money from businesses that got the wage subsidy and then made a profit. Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to reporter Luke Henriques-Gomes about what some say is a ‘double standard’ at the heart of this debt-recovery effort, and jobkeeper recipient Hannah explains how – after living through multiple lockdowns in Melbourne – this debt could ‘financially ruin’ her