He got a few $hundred backpay a couple of weeks ago, they took close to 3 months to process his claim. I wonder if having backpay owing for my old payment and the new one was the 'system error' that screwed up my claim? I wasn't on newstart very long, I think I was on about 8 weeks when my pregnancy exemption got processed so I ended up with two completely different copies of a couple of forms. Very confusing. The job network people I got set up with pretty much brushed me off when I had my first appt as it was sorta obvious I wouldn't be on longterm.

Actually they're giving me $390 so apparently not the full rate (I have rental income that obviously isn't affected by me not working), but that's still a lot more than I was getting before, and I got the guy to check my income details and they were all there ok. Last time I got PPP $390 *was* the full rate!

Last thing I needed was to get overpaid and owe them so good to see its above board and I'm not going insane

I don't trust the FTA/B to magically fix itself but I'll give it a few days of feverishly checking the self-service website before I call again lol