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MyGov.com.au has a rating of 1.1 stars from 188 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about MyGov.com.au most frequently mention new account, customer service, and complete waste problems. MyGov.com.au ranks 221st among Government sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Kafkaesque”

Geoff B.
7/25/19

I'm impressed that real life really can outdo 'The Trial'. Recommended as a defining experience of utter frustration and futility. Thanks MyGov, you're inspiring! We love the hold music on the Medicare inquiry line too - pure Central Services.

Top Critical Review

“If I could have given no stars I would have”

Mel K.
2/16/18

It's not just useless, it's dangerous - I've deleted my account but I'm still nervous that my personal details could be exposed on a database somewhere, people capable of producing something so bad are unlikely to have good security in place.

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Thumbnail of user melk27
Australia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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February 16th, 2018

It's not just useless, it's dangerous - I've deleted my account but I'm still nervous that my personal details could be exposed on a database somewhere, people capable of producing something so bad are unlikely to have good security in place.

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Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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October 7th, 2021

The title means trying something the same way and expecting a different result. Such crucial apps should not be like this. It must have been developed by $#*!ed quadrupeds who believe the earth is flat.

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Australia
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11 helpful votes
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July 25th, 2019

I'm impressed that real life really can outdo 'The Trial'. Recommended as a defining experience of utter frustration and futility. Thanks MyGov, you're inspiring! We love the hold music on the Medicare inquiry line too - pure Central Services.

Thumbnail of user paulb2299
Australia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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September 15th, 2020

3 days trying to get into mygov account. I have called 10 times, put onto different gov't departments and noone could help. What a complete waste of time. It will not let me set up a new account or enter a useless code that won't work either. So so frustrating!

Thumbnail of user jacobd136
Australia
1 review
34 helpful votes
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May 7th, 2020

I worked in IT most of my life, and we would have immediately fired any programming team who rolled out a system this bad. User-hostile, slow and unpredictable, impossible to find anything on the site, ridiculous error messages during install. I can't believe our tax dollars have been yet again poured down the toilet on another $#*!ty app.

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Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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April 8th, 2019

This is the worst site I have ever had to access... I end up wondering if Im just thick... but it asks for codes and resets passwords... pathetic! Get into and make it a bit more user friendly its just next level complicated...

Thumbnail of user kellyt91
Australia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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January 1st, 2018

This website is the biggest load of $#*! I've had to deal with! Nothing ever works properly! Have just had to set up 3 different accounts and still got blocked from each attempt because my answers to questions are supposedly incorrect! The government should be ashamed of itself! Not going to bother using it ever again!

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Australia
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4 helpful votes
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December 19th, 2022

If there was a 'zero' rating, i would have given this $#*! hole app a zero.
Tried months to get this up running and never worked. Tried to use my drivers license, Medicare card, passport, never was successful. Always 'unable to verify'. The links give mean jerk $#*!, the operators on the phone simply told me to delete the app and start again, after hours of waiting on the line... and I have to set this $#*! up for as a business owner. What a pile of crap.

Tip for consumers:
Useless app.

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Australia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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September 29th, 2019

Just a load of garbage the government official in charge of this should me fired and never work again just a complete waste of tax payers money every time i use it just gets worse you cant even change your phone number without creating a new account what an idiot

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Australia
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18 helpful votes
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April 14th, 2021

My gov is totally $#*!ing $#*!ed.
It is useless and $#*!ing pathetic.
Nothing ever works for more than a $#*!ing day.
The 'support' they offer is actually what you'd expect if you were talking to a puddle of mud. Nothing happens you just waste your time bothering

Whoever the actual $#*! designed this piece of $#*!, go drink hydrochloric acid

Tip for consumers:
$#*! you

Thumbnail of user andrewj244
New Jersey
1 review
4 helpful votes
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August 1st, 2019

Unless you can take an sms code to an Australian mobile number while overseas you wont be able to access you account. Thats bloody fantastic when your trying to sort out things like tax from the other side of the world. Seriously guys if your going to force us to use the system, make it work properly. You could set it up to do the same thing through an email. Fix this $#*! and stop living in the past, the people dont like being screwed.

Thumbnail of user peterw1265
Australia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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December 12th, 2021

Except for the Queensland Health Payroll system, I have never seen such a poorly developed application.
Most analysts use the 'keep it simple stupid' principal to the design process. This app has obviously been developed with guidelines to make it as difficult as possible to use.
After wasting hours trying to get everything in-line, set-up and going two steps backward for every step forward, I have given up. Come on - get real.

Tip for consumers:
A simple flow set of instructions. good linking between the various functions within their application. Design the application on the basis that most users will be computer and phone illiterate and a great number will be in the older age bracket.

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Thumbnail of user jamesm6105
Australia
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January 11th, 2022

Are you kidding me, the worst software ever, convoluted, keeps breaking down, will not allow me to even send my photo, but won't let me get past that point. How does the Government keep getting it so wrong so often. Such a convoluted ridiculous app. I understand they want to make sure of your identity, but I've been passed back and forward through several sites and keep going around in circles. My wife and I are old, we have one phone between us, but the government wants us both to have phones and bot with mobile and data accounts. Why cant they design the software to work off one phone for older couples like us. So I bought a phone, costs me $50 a month, just so I can get on their app... but it won; t let me, wants to take my picture, but just keeps on that page and nothing more... been on the thing for hours and the batteries now just about dead. I can't afford the money or the time at my age.

Tip for consumers:
Vote for a more intelligent government.

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Thumbnail of user elizabethc393
Australia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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July 24th, 2018

Attempting to navigate this site to place a Medicare claim has been one of the most frustrating things I have ever encountered. Nothing on the site works. I tried a dozen times by filling out their forms, answering questions, shutting down then recreating an account 3 times in an attempt to finally get it working for me. After one and a half hours online trying to get it working I gave up. An absolute nightmare. Can only imagine how frustrating it must be for elderly people trying to navigate. Utterly infuriating.

Thumbnail of user offtheg
Australia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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May 23rd, 2019

The worse app ever invented i have loss count how many times i have had to rejoin the stupid site to access information, screw that i just go in now because im sick and tired of being locked out, all they had to do was include an alternative email to reset your password but no to easy for government idiots, they make you rejoin every time thats why im off the grid and they can shove there poorest app ever

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Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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October 23rd, 2021

Poor Poor Poor People trying this such a waste of time just draining.
Who would make this so difficult is beyond me.
I am not an idiot I have 4 degrees.
Will give up once again + ring for the fourth time to wait for another hour

Thumbnail of user paulc2832
Australia
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5 helpful votes
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August 2nd, 2022

It used to be easy to pay your tax via mygov. Now it's impossible without getting enmeshed in links, codes and endless going round and round to non functioning options. At one stage they asked for my bank details... are they crazy! Like I'm really going to give my bank details on the internet. Looks like I'll just send them a cheque.

Thumbnail of user melissah1472
Australia
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11 helpful votes
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November 28th, 2021
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How they expect the elderly and disabled to navigate this site, I will never understand. Just logging in is a nightmare. As a career of the old and a disabled child and helping my computer illiterate husband…I have 4 my gov accounts to deal with. It's sends me in to the worst anxiety just knowing I have to use it. It's a nightmare and who ever designed it should be ashamed of themselves.

Thumbnail of user rochmanr
Australia
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36 helpful votes
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March 1st, 2020

I wish I could give this a zero rating. If you get a new phone (and who doesn't?) It locks your account and makes you create a new account, which sadly is impossible to do.The system requires the input of an sms code which is not being sent to me. I have spent over an hour on this so far with four separate calls to the help line with zero success.
What an appalling piece of excremental software. Was it designed by idiots?

Thumbnail of user carolb2669
Australia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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March 17th, 2022

I have spent the last 3 days trying to get this site to operate as I presume the developers wished it to do. I am an elderly person and regret that I have used up this part of my few remaining years of life on such a useless project. I have been asked the same questions numerous times and been locked out several times. I am computer literate and indeed worked in computing but this is beyond me. My cat could produce a better program.

Tip for consumers:
Be prepared to waste hours of you time.

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Thumbnail of user nickc183
Australia
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8 helpful votes
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August 7th, 2018

I am an IT security professional and if a private sector online service was as poorly designed as MyGov no-one would use it. It is incomprehensibly inconvenient without adding extra security. It seems the Government would prefer no-one used it. I understand why they do not want Centrelink users and those seeking Tax returns to successfully make contact, but it is the Governments job to provide usable services and it has failed here.

Tip for consumers:
If you plan to change your mobile number, get in touch with all Government agencies while you still have access to your old number, otherwise you will spend hours on the phone and online to try and co-ordinate the change. You will likely need a new MyGov account and have to link all services again.

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Thumbnail of user johnn2159
Australia
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11 helpful votes
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May 4th, 2022

Absolute joke. I rang the MyGovId line and they said a 12 minute wait to talk to someone. I was put on hold for over 50 minutes. When someone finally answered my call they put me on hold again to get information then they hung up. I tried ringing back and it was going to be another Minimum 30 minute wait. This is an extremely poor service and when you work for yourself a complete waste of time which means waste of money.

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Have patience

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Thumbnail of user briannak72
Australia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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August 22nd, 2022

This website does not work at all, the whole thing makes tasks 100 times harder than they need to be. I have spent over an hour trying to prove my identity to connect services, only to be told i need to contact the services. You would think a government agency would have the budget to make there one way of doing most government related things accessible to everyone, not just tech experts

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Thumbnail of user jackl229
Australia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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January 12th, 2019

MyGov is the worst abomination of a website I have ever seen. It in my opinion is purposefully designed in a manner to infuriate users every step of the way. I have never been more frustrated using any site ever created than this piece of crap system designed by a heavily corrupted government. I loathe this country and all it does to its vulnerable people. Just another destructive government who likes to turn it's people into mince meat.

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Australia
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July 5th, 2019

A couple of years ago, I forgot my password and tried one too many times. There was no warning the next attempt, if failed, would permanently lock the account. My account was permanently locked. I had to set up a new account with a new email address. I had to use my work email address. If I ever have another issue, I'll have to create a new email address which I'll never use except for myGov. The security then was very heavy handed and overly simplistic, with little thought of how it actually impacted the end user.
Since then, it appears they have improved security. I forgot my password yesterday and tried one too many times. Again, there was no warning the next attempt would be my last. I got a message my account was permanently locked. I was dumb founded. I thought I would have to start over with a new email address that I'll never use. But I tried to login this morning and the message changed to "temporarily locked". I was able to reset my password and get in. Thank goodness they have made that security feature user friendly (it certainly wasn't a couple of years ago). An improvement would be to alert users their next login attempt is the last before escalated security is triggered.

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