A commentary reveals how private debt collectors are draining welfare benefits through attachment orders, pushing recipients into deeper financial hardship and creating a cycle of dependency and poverty.
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systemic erosion of welfare security
$37m drained from benefits to debt collectors in grim vortexstate-enforced debt collection mechanism
It is sick that MSD helps debt collectors gut beneficiariesSpotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.
