A change to sentencing laws during COVID-19 meant probation officers could either slash community service hours or extend the period offenders had to complete the work.
The Justice Select committee was told today no extensions were made.
Victims' advocate Ruth Money is not impressed.
"From a victim's perspective this just means no one's been held to account. You want something in exchange for the hurt and the harm to balance the scales," Money said.
She believes it undermines the justice system.
"It's absolutely not good enough. You had to go to work, I had to go to work but the mahi is still there and we show up afterwards, so they should have been postponed," Money said.
National Party MP Simeon Brown agrees community service work should have been done after lockdown ended.
"They shouldn't have had to remit 130,000 of community service hours which those offenders should have completed for the offence that they did."
National Commissioner for the Department of Corrections, Rachel Leota, told Newshub they did not know when community work operations would start up again.
"Extending the time available for compliant offenders to complete their hours would have unfairly penalised them given that they would likely have continued to comply if it had not been for lockdown," Leota said.
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis said offenders who have had some hours wiped will complete remaining hours.
"There is a limit on the number of hours that can be remitted. The expectation is the rest of the balance of the hours will be completed."
No more than eight hours a week can be erased.
On Friday June 5 around 11000 people were subject to a sentence of community work.
