Reconciliation payment

[trishalishous]

I lodged my tax in july, nothing from centrelink, called them last week and they processed it within 3 days.

[Marley&Me]

I'm bumping this thread because I have another question and Centerlink has a 'more than 40 minutes' wait time. DH tax has been done by the agent, but has not been submitted because we haven't paid the fees yet (he has a commonwealth debt so don't ever see the $$). I didn't know it had to be paid before lodgement and have just found out. I can't pay until next week (maybe) so Centerlink can't process reconciliation payment for us until I pay the tax fee......BUT I think I remember the lady on the phone saying that the it has to be lodged by a certain time in order to be processed by centerlink for the recon payment. And I think I remember her saying October.
Is there a time limit on getting your tax return lodged (and paid) with Centerlink???