Dorothy

I don't know what we get. Centrelink payment goes into the bank every couple of weeks. Definitely don't make too much money, though.

Wendy

$2k probably on it's way to you in Dec then

Dorothy

Most excellent. We're going camping in Broome for 10 days. $2000 will come in very handy.

Taffaroo

I am using my 4 large as part payment on a boat.

ABCDiamond

Well, if you will insist on earning over $180,000 per year, that's one of the drawbacks...


But I can help you....... swap with me

ABCDiamond

Our bank statement shows 2 FTB entries, every 2 weeks, one is for FTB "A" the other FTB "B".

Sam

mine too
do you still get the dosh if you received both parts of FTB???
(see Pen no double line spacing just for you)

mr mover

With that avatar, and that statement.......Frank [foo-king]Gallagher comes to mind.........mm

ABCDiamond

Yes you do.

ozzieeagle

We had a terrible situation with centrelink after our youngest was born 11 years ago. Obviously we went on to one wage, so we applied for family benefit, all was well and dandy until my wife started working part time... about 8 years ago. The year she started back we had our tax done asap, which was fine, we got a small return. My wife was able to do extra shifts which meant extra days. her/our income fluctuated wildly. Centrelink only sent us one Income for assessement in the 22 months between our tax returns... Stupidly I did my next tax return at the last possible minute. After a lot of form filling with different assesments coming in We finally got a bill back from Centrelink for over 7,000 Aud. We agreed to pay them @ 150 bucks per month... meantime my wife went back to Fulltime work, and on to salary packaging... During this time we received no payments from Centrelink.. we then did our tax return with an account that had no idea about Centrelink family payments, dealing only in the tax side of things, and left us to deal with centrelink on our own.. so the status quo continued ie paying Centrelink at 150 bucks per months with nothing coming back from them.

I dont know if anyone here has spent anytime talking to centrelink on the phone with situations like this, but honestly at that time, everyperson we talked to gave us a different outcome... they are/were bloody hopeless. They've got to be the only organisation that makes Telstra look good.

Someone told me about a accountant that specialised in Centrelink payments. Well what a revelation, about 4 years ago it turned out we should have had some income from Centrelink after all. End result debt wiped... over 5000 dollars back from Centrelink on our first tax return with the new account, and a strategy for reducing our assessable income. We get money every year at the end of the year now from Centrelink.

Moral of this is... if your close to the income threshold then you must get an accountant that knows about centrelink family tax.

Most dont.

ABCDiamond

Even though I was an accountant myself, I don't have much faith in them for FTB either.

If you do have problems, or doubts about FBT, I suggest getting an appointment at Centrelink, (not the call centres) and discuss things with them in person.

And remember this when dealing with Centerlink...

• Most centrelink employees are normal people.
• For most of their day they are dealing with people who are trying to rort the system, like drug addicts that need a "special payment" as they have run out, and who stay there arguing till they get it.
• They deal with newly released prisoners, who, by law, have to have special preference, and demand everything that they have learnt about in Jail.
• They deal with people who are 'supposed' to be looking for work, but aren't. etc

It is not a Job I would like, way too stressful.

However, go in there and be friendly with them, smile a bit, say things like "god, how do you do this job".

90% of the time they will like you, and guess what... They will probably help you, and spend as much time helping you as they can, to delay the time before getting another obnoxious customer.

It makes sense, yes ?

bridie

Jeez, must be hard on the breadline

bridie

Yes, i have a friend who works in the Centrelink call centre.... dont know how she does it!

renth

"fight poverty, cheaper droogs now!"

ABCDiamond

It must be the Money and the Super !!