Hi ladies
Advice regarding Centrelink / Child Support Fraud:
A lady I know (my cousins ex partner) has been claiming Single Parenting Payment for the past 20yrs. During this time, she has given birth to 5 children to 4 different fathers.
Claiming full child support from each of these men + collecting her single parenting payment + living in subsidised government housing.
She’s literally on thousands and thousands of dollars per year, cheating every system she possibly can.
Each relationship she has claimed single parenting and child support behind the fathers backs, despite actually living with the father in her government housing at the time. She constantly just lies to the father saying it’s for family tax reasons and that’s why she still gets Centrelink.
Question:
1) Our family work our ass off to pay taxes and provide for our family, and HATE people cheating the system. Should I report her for the past 20yrs so they can investigate?
2) Would any of the fathers get into trouble and prosecuted considering they didn’t even know and obviously have not profited from any of this woman’s fraud?
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I’ve reported my MIL to CENTRELINK for a similar fraud. It was easy to report. You should do it.
Secondly the men won’t be implicated, it’s all under her CRN not theirs so they’ll be fine.
They must have lied at some point for it to be possible. They paid child support?! Pretty sure they would know
Hi how do I report. My ex and i have 3 kids together I have been the 100 percent carer for the past 6 months for 2 of them and she has been claiming g
For all the the whole time and refuses to give me a cent for the stuff they need and me and my two girls have been living off my mum for the past 5 month I have just got onto jobseeker payment witch is berly enough to survive and keep a roof
The dads would know! If there paying child support they would see it as her yearly income.
It would be kind of impossible for her to claim child support behind their back if she was being paid it because they would either be having it deducted from their wage or taken involuntarily from their bank account if they weren't paying it themselves.
The father of the children was under the impression she was claiming CL benefits of family tax, child care rebate and health care card....NOT single parenting. He was told she MUST claim child support to make her eligible for those three things.
No. When you claim child support they ring him and he gives the details. ALL the details, address, separation date, percentage of care etc. Theres no way you can accidentally do it while together. To be honest it sounds like youre biased (of course)and just want to drop her in it, not him, so then its not really about justice.
Wow I didn’t know that’s how they do things. Well yes you are correct then - he would have been aware by some means of the ‘separation’ declaration. Fantastic thank you for your advice. I still believe regardless that both should be held accountable. 20yrs is not a short fraud claim.
They never rang my ex to do that so I don’t know where the fuck u are getting that information from
Whenever you put in a claim for Child Support or make a change, they will contact the other party to verify
Sounds like mutual fraud to me. Honestly I would dob them in.
My sister claims full care of her children too, do ou know what she gets in child support a measley $34 a fortnight for two boys aged 3. The child support you receive depends on the income of the father. She could not be frauding the system at all. You're just assuming she is. Leave it, it has nothing to do with you!!
Are you sure she is claiming a single parent pension? And if so are you sure the father is unware? My husband and I separated for several months a few years ago due to him relapsing with addiction. In that time our children and myself were living with family and I was claiming the single parent pension. The paper work involved is nuts, we were both sent a mountain of paper work to fill out, sign and return to Centrelink. Plus once that’s done child support send a heap of stuff to both parents too even if it’s a private arrangement so I’m confused as to how the father would be oblivious to this?