http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4p9BQ3V9o

Remember this Hasbeen?

Jewely not Piper and are you being cheeky to me Blue? You watch it; I’ll fully dob you in to the OLO police. :) Oh silly me.....I think I was playing the wrong tune;)

Dole cheats, tax cheats, seem to be part n parcel with this being the norm of human nature. Some people just get off on being bankers.....which even those who cant help themselves........ at least try to keep their hands out of the cookie jar. Banks and CEO's would have to be the biggest cheats of them all.......and I personally couldn't live with the thought of cheating......however some just have very low morals indeed:)

Ho HO HO

Merry Xmas.

BLUE

Hi all,
Thanks for all your interesting comments about this article. Firstly I need to clarify that it was not my brother who was committing this alleged fraud but a member of his wife's family. My brother was just the one who confronted me and threw me out of the family.
Secondly, that member of the family was quadruple dipping by receiving a disability pension, mobility allowance, full family payment, rent assistance, all while he was working for my brother and receiving cash in hand to do so.
The disability pension was supposedly issued because of a mental health issue which wouldnt allow him to work, the mobility allowance was so that he could attend voluntary work at gamblers anonymous - which wasnt the case at all he was attending gamblers anonymous for his gambling addiction. Full family payment was being received even though he was no longer looking after his child all the time on his own as his childs mother was actually living with him again (and also claiming full sole parent benefits from Centrelink under a different address not reporting that she was in fact living in a defacto relationship and sharing the care of their child). The rent assistance was being claimed even though he was part owner in another house to which he was living and hadnt reported that shared asset to Centrelink. It was done that way so that he didnt lose the house when he went bankrupt due to his gambling debts. Plus he was claiming pensioner discounts everywhere including for rates and car rego etc even though he was working full time cash in hand.
They are the reasons why I approached him at least 20 times about all that I knew he was doing wrong and suggested he make things right with Centrelink and he refused and told me I was an idiot for doing the right thing with Centrelink myself.
I just found my hard time with Centrelink since then ironical and wondered about the Kharma of it as well.
Jayne Harobed.

Jayne, thanks for the clarifications, but I'm not really sure what relevance they have. They sound like pretty trivial offences to me, what was the total amount he managed to get away with do you think?

Moreover, if he was seeking treatment for his addiction, why would you resent him being paid to travel to meetings?

Australia is made up of people in families and our State depends to a large degree on those families supporting each other. If they did not then the country would require some additional taxation to pay for the things that people do for each other for nothing, like caring for sick or aging relatives, providing child care, mutual support in tough times.

It is such an important part of our society that our system of laws assumes that individuals will give their first loyalty to family and it exempts close family from testifying against each other in court if they so choose for that reason. You not only chose to "appear for the prosecution", you were the judge, jury and would-be executioner.

If you thought this person was doing the wrong thing, you should have sought the support of senior members of your family to sort him out. If they wouldn't help, then you should have examined where your genuine loyalty might lie. I suggest to you that the Nation State doesn't much care about you personally, but your parents, etc most certainly do. I'd also suggest to you that you are now discovering that you actually value them pretty highly too.

Perhaps next time, you might like to consider where your real loyalties lie: with a group of faceless pen-pushers who care about you not a jot except if you look like affecting their KPIs, or your loving family, flawed as some members might be?

You already know the answer.