Only in Australia!!





It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890.00 and each can also get an additional $580.00 in social assistance for a total of $2,470.00.



A single pensioner who, after contributing to the growth and development of Australia for 40 to 50 years, receives only a monthly maximum of $1,012.00 in old age pension and> Guaranteed Income supplement.

Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!



Let's send this to all Australians so we can all be ticked off and maybe we> can get the refugees cut back> to $1,012.00 and the pensioners up to $2,470.00 and enjoy some of the money we were forced to submit to the Government over the last 40 or 50 years.

Please forward to every Australian to expose what our electedp oliticians> are doing to the over-taxed Australian

Only in Australia!! Oh, and Canada... and America, and basically most western countries where email hoaxes abound. A quick search on the government website provided absolute refutation of this claim in a media release last September, which I have copied and pasted below:

DIAC refutes internet claims on refugee payments
Media Release - 7 September 2007

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has
refuted false claims circulating on the internet that refugees
settling in Australia receive more in benefit payments than
Australian pensioners.

'The figures quoted in the email bear no resemblance to income-
support payments to pensioners, or to payments to refugees
settling in Australia,' DIAC spokesman Sandi Logan said today.

'The text and figures in the email appear to have originated in
Canadian emails, websites and internet chatrooms. We suspect
that the email circulating here has been cut and pasted from
these sources.

'In Australia, refugees granted permanent visas may gain access
to benefits on the same basis and at the same rates as other
Australian permanent residents.

'Refugees with temporary visas do not have access to the full
range of benefits - they are only eligible for Centrelink
Special Benefits on the same basis and rates as other
Australian residents.

'There is no separate rate of benefit payments for refugees.'

Mr Logan said refugees received no cash payments under
Australia’s Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy.

'DIAC helps eligible refugees with basic goods to start a
household, subsidies for rent and utilities for their first
four weeks in the country, English-language lessons and
settling-in assistance,' he said.

'Asylum seekers in Australia who have not yet had their
protection claims decided have no access to Centrelink benefits.

'The Asylum Seeker Assistance Scheme administered by the
Australian Red Cross provides some publicly funded financial
assistance to eligible asylum seekers who are unable to meet
their most basic support needs.

'We would strongly encourage anyone who receives an email
claiming refugees are treated more favourably than Australian
permanent residents to hit the delete button and ignore these
scurrilous claims,' Mr Logan added.

http://www.immi.gov.au/media/media-releases/2007/d07033.htm

HAHAHA

Burned!

it's always the people who *want* to believe it...

pwnd

PALE,
I see that scenario every day. Anyone not believing it is simply a left-wing moron & really never will be of use to a "normal" society. Unfortunately, the Ostrich syndrome is thriving in Australia & should be listed on the share market.

Ain't it the truth, individual. Only a real chardonnay-sipping, latte-guzzling, hybrid 4WD-driving, ABC-watching, Fairfax-reading, Sydney Uni Alumni-belonging, Patrick White-worshiping, homosexual lobby-believing-in, inner-city-living, Fran Kelly-listening, refugee-supporting, Keating-admiring, my-kids-go-to-selective-school-saying, Fair Trade-buying, Labor-loving moron would believe something obviously true, eh?

Here's the snopes report: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/refugees.asp