Hi there,

I would love it if anyone could help me out on any experiences.

I got very little FTB last year as I estimated that my partner earnt 80k in the whole year. Things went badly and DP's tax return just lodged shows our actual earnings at under 40k.

For two months of the financial year I didn't even get FTB at all as I was getting it withheld...so now it ends up that they owe me quite a lot of money, which we are really impatiently waiting for as we owe the tax department lots of tax and this money was going to go toward it. My estimations of this and the RA I never received, CL owes us over 10k. We really need to pay the tax department and numerous other bills before xmas.

Anyway...it shows up that DPs tax return has hit CL BUT instead of it being automatically processed, it's been 'flagged' for manual processing for a reason they can't tell me why and they can't/won't give me a reason or time frame of when the money I'm owed will be coming through. I really was thinking that it would be like last time, just automatically once our tax return was filed.

I am desperately hoping this money will come in before xmas, or we won't be having one.

Has anyone had this happen to them with their tax return going to centrelink? If so, how long did it take for them to manually process it. Does anyone know what this might mean?

Thanks in advance for any help