28214 (2025). Ricardo Menéndez March to the Minister for Social Development and Employment

28214 (2025). Ricardo Menéndez March to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: What is the total debt, average debt, and number of people with debt owing to the Ministry of Social Development, including people not currently in receipt of a benefit and excluding any debt from overpayments or fraud investigations, at the end of each quarter since September 2024, broken down by gender and ethnicity?

Hon Louise Upston: I refer the member to the attached table which contains the number of clients, total debt, and average debt of clients owing a Recoverable Assistance debt as at the end of each quarter from September 2024 to March 2025, by gender and total response ethnicity.