Rent rebate when you arrive
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Rent rebate when you arrive
Some news that should linterest you new comers. When you arrive as a perminant resident and you are looking for work you can claim a rebate on any rent you are paying. You only get the payment while you are not working and you get it from center link along with your child benefit.
I have just filled a from out for the family we have in the Mandurah house ( they told me about it actually) and they are going to get back around $100 a week.
Hope this helps
Paula
I have just filled a from out for the family we have in the Mandurah house ( they told me about it actually) and they are going to get back around $100 a week.
Hope this helps
Paula
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Also while you are not working and claiming child benefit, you will be sent a Health Care Card, a type of concession card. This gets you a discount on public transport fares, as well as discount into various tourist attractions, discount at the local chemist's, and various other places. Make sure to use it while you can! The card is only cancelled once your salary goes over a certain limit, I don't know the exact figure, about $30000 I think.
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Re: Rent rebate when you arrive
Originally posted by paula m
Some news that should linterest you new comers. When you arrive as a perminant resident and you are looking for work you can claim a rebate on any rent you are paying. You only get the payment while you are not working and you get it from center link along with your child benefit.
I have just filled a from out for the family we have in the Mandurah house ( they told me about it actually) and they are going to get back around $100 a week.
Hope this helps
Paula
Some news that should linterest you new comers. When you arrive as a perminant resident and you are looking for work you can claim a rebate on any rent you are paying. You only get the payment while you are not working and you get it from center link along with your child benefit.
I have just filled a from out for the family we have in the Mandurah house ( they told me about it actually) and they are going to get back around $100 a week.
Hope this helps
Paula
Last edited by pommie bastard; Jul 22nd 2003 at 2:11 am.
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Originally posted by Jacqui
Also while you are not working and claiming child benefit, you will be sent a Health Care Card, a type of concession card. This gets you a discount on public transport fares, as well as discount into various tourist attractions, discount at the local chemist's, and various other places. Make sure to use it while you can! The card is only cancelled once your salary goes over a certain limit, I don't know the exact figure, about $30000 I think.
Also while you are not working and claiming child benefit, you will be sent a Health Care Card, a type of concession card. This gets you a discount on public transport fares, as well as discount into various tourist attractions, discount at the local chemist's, and various other places. Make sure to use it while you can! The card is only cancelled once your salary goes over a certain limit, I don't know the exact figure, about $30000 I think.
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Re: Rent rebate when you arrive
Originally posted by paula m
Some news that should linterest you new comers. When you arrive as a perminant resident and you are looking for work you can claim a rebate on any rent you are paying. You only get the payment while you are not working and you get it from center link along with your child benefit.
I have just filled a from out for the family we have in the Mandurah house ( they told me about it actually) and they are going to get back around $100 a week.
Hope this helps
Paula
Some news that should linterest you new comers. When you arrive as a perminant resident and you are looking for work you can claim a rebate on any rent you are paying. You only get the payment while you are not working and you get it from center link along with your child benefit.
I have just filled a from out for the family we have in the Mandurah house ( they told me about it actually) and they are going to get back around $100 a week.
Hope this helps
Paula
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These are benefits that migrants are entitled to. Why would you not claim something you are entitled to, especially when you whinge constantly about how hight the taxes are?
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Originally posted by pommie bastard
Come to Australia and be a battler , well the South West is full of unemployed and the retired its a great place to start blugging.
Come to Australia and be a battler , well the South West is full of unemployed and the retired its a great place to start blugging.
Do you ever read what you post from one thread to the next, or is your brain (if you have one) just a random word generator.
Apologies to OP.
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Originally posted by dracupg
These are benefits that migrants are entitled to. Why would you not claim something you are entitled to, especially when you whinge constantly about how hight the taxes are?
These are benefits that migrants are entitled to. Why would you not claim something you are entitled to, especially when you whinge constantly about how hight the taxes are?
Why bring in the unemployable Australia has many of their own ?
Bloody refugee Poms come here eat up welfare , now where have I heard that before?
Last edited by pommie bastard; Jul 22nd 2003 at 4:33 am.
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Originally posted by Kiwipaul
Christ you've been whingeing on about high taxes and no benefits on posts only today, now your on the opposite tack whingeing about to many benefits.
Do you ever read what you post from one thread to the next, or is your brain (if you have one) just a random word generator.
Apologies to OP.
Christ you've been whingeing on about high taxes and no benefits on posts only today, now your on the opposite tack whingeing about to many benefits.
Do you ever read what you post from one thread to the next, or is your brain (if you have one) just a random word generator.
Apologies to OP.
Being the working poor here we get stuff all and now you defend those who rape the system.
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Originally posted by dracupg
These are benefits that migrants are entitled to. Why would you not claim something you are entitled to, especially when you whinge constantly about how hight the taxes are?
These are benefits that migrants are entitled to. Why would you not claim something you are entitled to, especially when you whinge constantly about how hight the taxes are?
I am pointing out the hypocrisy of the average pom refugee with their avowed hatred of benefit bludgers and yet now here they are claiming. This is going over your head?
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Even the most highly skilled migrant can expect to wait some time to get a job. Doesn’t necessarily make them unemployable. Thats why they qualify as skilled migrants in the first place.
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Originally posted by dracupg
Even the most highly skilled migrant can expect to wait some time to get a job. Doesn’t necessarily make them unemployable. Thats why they qualify as skilled migrants in the first place.
Even the most highly skilled migrant can expect to wait some time to get a job. Doesn’t necessarily make them unemployable. Thats why they qualify as skilled migrants in the first place.
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Originally posted by dracupg
Not sure, but is there not also a Family Benefit (A or B?) that you can claim so long as at least one parent isn’t working?
Not sure, but is there not also a Family Benefit (A or B?) that you can claim so long as at least one parent isn’t working?
The Family Assistance Office has a useful website where you can get further info www.familyassist.gov.au - once you live here you can also go online (with a password) to keep your annual income up-to-date to make sure you are claiming the right amounts, and submit other changes to your details.
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Originally posted by Jacqui
Yes that's right, I don't go out to work, so we are entitled to claim Part B which is currently $75.88 a fortnight. You are also entitled to 20 hours of child care benefit for each child per week, helpful for those that do go out to work and need to use child care. Although my children are all school-age, it does mean that during the school holidays I can book them into an approved holiday club and have part of it paid for! How much depends again on your circumstances. This was especially handy during the long summer break last January, my children went to a holiday club twice a week for that month and went out and about to places we had never heard of and had a brilliant time. It cost about $1000 in all (I have three children) but the government paid $600. Now that hubby is working, the children still get to go, but we have to pay a bigger proportion.
The Family Assistance Office has a useful website where you can get further info www.familyassist.gov.au - once you live here you can also go online (with a password) to keep your annual income up-to-date to make sure you are claiming the right amounts, and submit other changes to your details.
Yes that's right, I don't go out to work, so we are entitled to claim Part B which is currently $75.88 a fortnight. You are also entitled to 20 hours of child care benefit for each child per week, helpful for those that do go out to work and need to use child care. Although my children are all school-age, it does mean that during the school holidays I can book them into an approved holiday club and have part of it paid for! How much depends again on your circumstances. This was especially handy during the long summer break last January, my children went to a holiday club twice a week for that month and went out and about to places we had never heard of and had a brilliant time. It cost about $1000 in all (I have three children) but the government paid $600. Now that hubby is working, the children still get to go, but we have to pay a bigger proportion.
The Family Assistance Office has a useful website where you can get further info www.familyassist.gov.au - once you live here you can also go online (with a password) to keep your annual income up-to-date to make sure you are claiming the right amounts, and submit other changes to your details.
Just what we need in Oz. More refugees draining the benefits.