Welfare advocates are criticising the hurdles and traumatising questions women are facing to be refunded thousands of dollars wrongly taken from their benefit.
Menendez-March is particularly unhappy woman often have to talk about the moment of their child's conception with a case worker as part of their review.
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In April last year, the government scrapped the sanction that docked $28 a week from sole parents - mostly women - that didn't name the other parent.
Exemptions to the now-scrapped sanctions included family violence concerns, the pregnancy being the result of sexual violation and insufficient evidence to establish who the other parent is.