Centrepay scandal: energy firm Origin wrongly received funds from welfare payments of former customers

Exclusive: Company is the third supplier known to have been given payments from vulnerable Australians in cases exposed by Guardian Australia

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Energy giant Origin wrongly received money from the welfare payments of former customers via the government-run Centrepay debit system, the Guardian can reveal.

Origin is now the third energy retailer known to have wrongly received money via Centrepay from vulnerable and low-income Australians after they had ceased being customers.