Funding boost to cut Centrelink call wait

Updated April 23 2018 - 12:19pm, first published 12:11pm
The government is trying to address the backlog of calls to Centrelink.
The government is trying to address the backlog of calls to Centrelink.

An extra 1000 call centre staff will be contracted to help Centrelink answer the more than one million telephone queries from welfare recipients each week.

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