and we got talking about finances and how hard it is etc.. anyway she blurts out and tells me the only reason they are living in LUXURY! i mean LUXURY, is because they have told centrelink they have split up so she is recieving a single parent payment AND rent assistant and whatever else, when her partner is out working a nicely paid job monday-friday.
That peeves me no end. SPP is $600 odd and you can earn a minor fortune on it before they cut you down at 20c in the dollar or something.

I haven't been on Centerlink long, but they deem my income so I get $320pf from them (often it is less), and I have 3 dependants. If I was single I'd get the full $600, plus extra FTB, and a vastly more generous income threshold. I can see why people rort the system. They could at least raise the income threshold a bit from $61pf, and perhaps assess it on the amount you earn *in the hand* instead of pre-tax, pre-deductions, pre everything, and take it back at 20c in the dollar like PPS rather than 50c. And lets not get started on cutting your FTB down when your partner earns more than $4000. Who earns LESS than $4000 these days?

If it was me I'd dob her in.