I am a dobber. If someone is doing the wrong thing and flashing it around i tell.
Im talking about people who are claiming single parent and single newstart they live together have a kid together both dont want to work they bread dogs and guinea pigs to sell on gum tree as "pure breads" to get extra money when they need it. No these people are not friends but they are close enough to know the details and that they are 300% together in a romantic relationship but claiming they arent.
Im not jealous of them im married with 2 kids live in a beautiful area new car in the driveway that we work hard for. Both me and my husband work fulltime plus overtime. I work days he works nights because together we earn too much to afford day care benefits so we pay the full $96 a day and we cant afford that so we sacrifice our time together. We could easily do the wrong thing he could go stay at mum and dads for a year or two and we could claim single. Reality is it wouldnt be any different to what we do now! But we'd have more money in our pockets. But no, we dont, we work hard for what we need/want.
So after years of staying out of things i dobbed because everyone says do it. Because morally it feels right to stand up for a system thats ment to help people. I did the online thing i gave them my details. Addresses names phone numbers times days regos cars everything... months later and nothing.
Do they even look at them? It was someone from the department if human services that urged me to do it too. But i cant help but feel like they want the information but dont want to do anything about it. And we are talking 7 years of overpayment to a married couple who are both capable of working who have made the decision that they dont want to work. How is that fair to those who do the right thing?
I know people get caught out but has anyone actually "dobbed" and centrelink followed through?
Centrelink fraud do they actually do anything?
Centrelink fraud do they actually do anything?
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Yes they do but as they are understaffed it sometimes takes years before they catch up with them.
My grandfather got in trouble three years ago for accepting $15 for a one off job without declaring it on aged pension!
Yep just $15! Not $15 per hour
How did they find out about something like that? :(
This is the kind of unfair crap im meaning! The people who need it that make 1 mistake vs those who dont who go on and on for 7 years!
Grandpa thinks it was the guy who paid him the $15! My grandpa had done them a favour by servicing an old piece of machinery (that only an old person would want to fix!).
Nobody else would even have known about the payment and the person wouldn't even have known if grandpa had declared it or not. It was ridiculous!
PS there is a small department set up in Centrelink to trawl Facebook posts for cheats!
It takes years sometimes. The longer it goes on, the longer it takes for something to happen. Centrelink won't pursue until they've worked it all out and know what they have to collect back and if they have to take them to court etc. Anything over $5k they'll charge them for and obviously the more they've defrauded, the higher the chance they person or persons will face gaol.
I reported a couple once for the same thing and nothing ever came of it. She still gloats about getting the extra payments. I gave them all the info they could possibly need. The system is a joke
Thanks for all the helpful comments on fb and here. I am Really over the bitchy ones tho. Im not obsessing its a thought that crossed my mind and i wondered if anyone else had been down the road of doing the right thing and if anything ever gets done.
As i said i love my life and work hard for my family and am sick of paying my tax to bludgers. If you genuinely need help im all for it. And for those questioning do have proof hence why human services told me to do the report.
But thanks for telling me im wasting my time obsessing (cuz heaven forbid you ask a question when something crosses your mind) obviously tho your wasting your time commenting negatively.
I dobbed in someone once and it took two weeks for Centrelink to action. Didn't take long at all.
I haven't dobbed before. But do know of someone who got caught. It was over many years and thousands and thousands of dollars. They ended up in court and got a 12 month jail term. They had 3 kids and the youngest was only 3 at the time. The way I see it...12 months away from my kids isn't worth the cheating and lying to get easy money from the government.
My mum works for this department, investigating reports of fraud and raising debts, and they get thousands upon thousands of reports every day from all over Australia. There is a very strict protocol that they have to follow including gathering evidence etc that takes a fair bit of time, mainly because people involved, including employers etc, are uncooperative. It may take a long time, but they do actually take every report seriously.
if they are each claiming a single allowance their tax arrangements may be of interest to the Tax Office....you could write to them, don't have to give your details, just theirs. Type the letter and put on the bottom c c (your local Federal MP, it freaks out department workers.)I KNOW the ATO attend to TAX evaders and cross reference Centrelink!