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24 April 2002
Bloody Centerlink
24 April 2002 12:30I've been unempolyed for over 12 months, living on a Government handout called Newstart, whic comes to $360 per fortnight. You are obliged to fill in a form every second week. So when I started uni I applied for Austudy, which is like Newstart for students, except that it is $301 per fortnight and lets me derfer the uni fees. I applied for it on 15th Feb.
The Newstart forms kept arriving, so I filled them out stating that I hadn't looked for work during that period due to being a full time student.
Today I get a bill in the mail. I owe the government $1670.00 for Newstart payments from 18/2 to 3/4. It's what I was paid on Newstart instead of being paid Austudy.
They wanted me to pay back what they had paid me, but they weren't going to pay me any missed Austudy payments.
So I rang them. My question of "If I have to bay this, will I recieve the missed entitlments?" was greeted with a long silence.
"That's a really good question," sha said.
Later on Allan rang and said he'd get back to me on Monday. It looks like I'll only have to pay back the $30/week difference and I can organise a periodic payment for that.
Bloody Centerlink.
The Newstart forms kept arriving, so I filled them out stating that I hadn't looked for work during that period due to being a full time student.
Today I get a bill in the mail. I owe the government $1670.00 for Newstart payments from 18/2 to 3/4. It's what I was paid on Newstart instead of being paid Austudy.
They wanted me to pay back what they had paid me, but they weren't going to pay me any missed Austudy payments.
So I rang them. My question of "If I have to bay this, will I recieve the missed entitlments?" was greeted with a long silence.
"That's a really good question," sha said.
Later on Allan rang and said he'd get back to me on Monday. It looks like I'll only have to pay back the $30/week difference and I can organise a periodic payment for that.
Bloody Centerlink.
Oh yeah...
24 April 2002 13:07I was so pissed off about Centerlink I forgot to mention I passed the Make A Homepage assignment.
15.5/20 for this piece of crap. Another pass!
I was marked down because "the page tells me nothing about you!" Which is exactly what I wanted without the mark-down bit.
15.5/20 for this piece of crap. Another pass!
I was marked down because "the page tells me nothing about you!" Which is exactly what I wanted without the mark-down bit.
And now, this
24 April 2002 15:27My bat rescue page at http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~denbat/ will be disappearing soon, and will reappear at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~denbat/ as soon as I get my arse into gear and do the swap. There's only crap on my ozemail site at the moment.