No you're not understanding. There is a unique ID, in this particular context it's called a CRN (customer reference number). Every person who receives social se

No you're not understanding. There is a unique ID, in this particular context it's called a CRN (customer reference number). Every person who receives social security in Australia has one and they're fixed for life. The lack of unique ID has nothing to do with this. This was government blatantly attacking poor people through willful mismanagement of an automated debt inferment system in conflict with the legal process through which that debt should have been calculated. They 100% knew what they were doing and did it deliberately.