Yep, I have already told Centrelink about Shel and I, we had a social work meeting and all that. We are considered coupled from July next year, and I will happily give up my single parent payment when we are recognised as a couple.

I don't do it to rip off the government, just so people know , I do it because legally I am single so our expenses (like medical) are separate, we have separate Medicare Safety Net thing, so we have to pay twice as much as any other family before we hit the safety net limit, plus other things like the costs of having to go through court to get a parenting agreement so Shel is considered a legal guardian as legally she isn't my partner so has no rights when it comes to Jazz, and the extra money from the single parent payment covers the costs of me being seen as single.