Joint consumer submission (Ied by Financial Rights Legal Centre) in response to the above discussion paper, which in turn came from a Roundtable hosted by the Attorney-General in March 2023. We argue that the forced bankruptcy threshold should increase from $10,000 to $50,000, that the bankruptcy notice period be extended to 60 days, that the National Personal Insolvency Index be modernised and harmonised with the credit reporting framework, that entering a debt agreement should not be an act of bankruptcy and that the payment to income ratio for a debt agreement should be set by legislative instrument to mitigate against people entering into unaffordable agreements.
230927_Joint_Consumer_Sub_FinalResponse to the “Personal Insolvency Discussion Paper”
Submission to: Attorney-General’s Department
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Review of the Privacy (Credit Reporting) Code 2014 (Version 2.1)
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Joint consumer submission (led by Financial Rights Legal Centre) contains numerous recommendations to improve the current code. As currently drafted it is impenetrable and needs to be rewritten in simpler and clearer language. We recommend that it be broken up into principles-based consumer provisions and technical industry-facing provisions. There is so much wrong with the Code, that it is difficult to summarise the over 40 recommendations. They cover statute barred debt, family violence, the code oversight body, better timeframes, free credit reports, improving the corrections process and the perverse situation where shopping around for a credit product adversely affects a credit report.
Joint consumer submission (led by Financial Rights Legal Centre) contains numerous recommendations to improve the current code. As currently drafted it is impenetrable and needs to be rewritten in simpler and clearer language. We recommend that it be broken up into principles-based consumer provisions and technical industry-facing provisions. There is so much wrong with the Code, that it is difficult to summarise the over 40 recommendations. They cover statute barred debt, family violence, the code oversight body, better timeframes, free credit reports, improving the corrections process and the perverse situation where shopping around for a credit product adversely affects a credit report.