BG can probably jump all over this one as she's an expert and I'm just going on what a friend of mine told me recently about her situation (she's got two kids to her ex and now lives with her partner and they have a son together)... something about how even if you are considered to be in a 'marriage-like' relationship with your new man (who, if he's the dude in your FB pic, score!!! Got yourself a cutie!), it's a different situation because he's not your bub's dad?? I dunno the specifics, my friend was telling me the other day that she gets pretty good money from C'Link despite her partner being a relatively high income earner, because he's not the girls' dad, just her son's, so C'Link only takes their son into account when calculating her FTB etc and then pays her pretty much the single rate for her two girls because their dad isn't the one their mum's in a relationship with??
Again, I'm probably way off on that one but yeah, that's what my friend said - and I know she wouldn't have it in her to rort the system because she's so scared of things like police and going to court and her kids thinking she's a bad person (which is unerstandable lol, we all want our kids to see us as perfect!), and she has no idea of how it all works, she just tells them the truth about what she's doing and gets paid whatever they decide she's entitled to...

Uhh... that made no sense. What I'm trying to say is that maybe it's a different situation if the person you're in a relationship with isn't the father of your kids??