My sister has been lieing to centrelink for a long time. She is claiming single parenting even though she is married and her husband works. She keeps making excuses and says shes only on it until her husband gets a permanent job or shes going to go off it once her gets paid ect. He has changed jobs again and she is still claiming it. It really frustrates me as its wrong and everyone else can be honest to centrelink even though they could do with the extra cash. I want her to get caught but i dont want to be the one to dob her in.
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I dont condone what she is doing at all and yes its wrong and she knows it is but i would mind my own buisness.. dont get caught up in that kind of mess with family.
Centerlink will eventually catch on
Talk to her about the debt recovery letters, theyre going over old tax reports and sending bills out years later. People are being hit with fines of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, its ruining lives. Get her imagining when that day comes.
Her time is about up. There are new checks in place for this financial year and they will be caught out.
I hope centrelink are doing more to catch these people as it seems so easy to get away with. One of ex employees has been paying child support and his partner claiming single mother benefits whilst all three of them live together and have been for the past 5 or more years. He doesn't have his own bank account and used the workplace as his address, his wages and child support payments both go into his partners bank account which is in her name, I'm not sure why that isn't a huge giveaway!
Someone on a mothers group just got married, then asked how to do the paperwork for changing to partnered. Its sickening. Single parents actually struggle and single working couples struggle while these people are appearing to be the same while getting and extra income by fraud.
Just do it.
She's going to get caught out anyway, so it's better to be sooner rather than later.
So you would deliberately send your sister to Gaol? Leave your nieces and nephews without a mum? Because if you dobb her in, that could happen. How could you sleep at night?
Better to get caught now and possibly get a slap on the wrist and a fine, than owing a tonne of money 10 years down the track and getting arrested for fraud.
I wouldn't allow my sister to do this.
If I knew she was doing it, it tell her to her face "change your details or I'll dob you in".
Committing fraud is illegal.
Very few people actually go to jail. It would have to be an astonishingly huge amount of money for that to occur.
I think what she is doing is very wrong, but it's your SISTER. I would take a bullet for mine, would probably cover up a murder if she committed one, can't believe you would consider it. Are you guys close or do you have a troubled relationship? If it were my sister, I would be more worried she was going to get caught so I would have stern talks with her regarding the consequences and try to make her do the right thing because I wouldn't want to see her go to gaol.
She has a good chance of going to gaol once she is caught and charged (and she will be). The more she claims, the worse it will be, and it adds up quickly. She'll likely be getting the wrong amounts of FTA and FTB so that compounds it.
Encourage her to stop, and own up. Google Centrelink Fraud charges too - you'll find stories of those who have already been through the process.
I have tried talking to her about stopping it but she wont listen. I would never dob her in as people have said i couldnt live with it but the longer it goes on the more she is receiving which mean higher chance of prison then just having to pay back the money. Thats why i want her to get caught. But like i said she want listen. They are obviously doing well off as they can just go and buy some luxury iten that cost $400. So its not like they need to have that money to live.
You can report fraud anonymously online, but be careful you don't advise any details only you would know. Your sister would have access to the details under Freedom of Information.
Very few people actually go to jail for Centrelink fraud. The longer she commits fraud though, the higher that chance is.
Just so you know, the majority of people who report fraud are family & close friends of the people committing the fraud.
Good luck with your decision xx
There's no way of her finding out if you do do her in anyway.
I got reported to centrelink, tho I hadn't actually been lying. But they still investigated me.
They will investigate her and will reasses her payments.
If they can backdate howlong she has been lying she will have to pay some or all of it back depending on circumstances.
Nope..just wrong..I hope she has to pay it all back..I don't blame you for being mad about it..a lot of people could use the extra money but don't resort to stealing..yes it's stealing :/
You can tip off Centrelink anonymously online
I have a close friend ripping Centrelink for years. Claiming single parent pension. She's married and always has been her hubby earns in excess of $150k and lives extravagantly. But I couldn't dob her .
Well this just annoys me to no end!
I have gone from earning $24,000 a year supporting a baby and partner once upon a time and not having food to eat my self yet i paid my taxes and still do...which go towards people that need a helping hand, to hear that people like your sister are doing what they do, it upsets me.
Some here are saying to get over it but she is robbing society and a system that is in place for those in need.
You should do the right thing, it does and will affect you if your sister is in jail and your neices and nephews have no mum.
Better she be caught now then face harsher consequences in the future, its only a matter of time.
Yes she shouldn't be doing it but how nasty and evil it is for you to want this for your own sister. Sounds like what a Narcissist would do.
Just had my husband's coworker's wife go to jail for exactly this.... her youngest was just 2. No amount of money is worth being away from my child for 12 months. She paid back a significant amount by her court appearance and is still paying...
You can report fraud anonymously, but be careful you don't advise any details only you would know. Your sister would have access to the details under Freedom of Information.
Just so you know, the majority of people who report fraud are family & close friends of the people committing the fraud.
Good luck with your decision xx