Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 1224C

    If:

  (a)   an amount has been paid to a person by way of a social security payment; and

  (b)   the amount is a debt due to the Commonwealth under subsection   11(6) of the Data - matching Program (Assistance and Tax) Act 1990 ;

the amount so paid is recoverable by the Commonwealth.