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Sydney household stuck in Wuhan can’t manage food after Centrelink cut off payments

Sydney household stuck in Wuhan can’t manage food after Centrelink cut off payments

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March 13, 2020 08: 31:03

A Sydney family caught in China for nearly 2 months due to a coronavirus lockdown states they are struggling to afford food after Centrelink cut off their well-being payments.

Bottom line:

  • The family were captured in the Wuhan lockdown after checking out the kids’s ill granny
  • They weren’t able to get a medical certificate that Centrelink asked for as they couldn’t leave their house
  • Some Centrelink payments can be immediately suspended after 28 days overseas

Joanne Bao and her three teenage daughters flew to Wuhan in January to spend time with the ladies’ ill granny during their school holiday



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