Reply With QuoteDon't be ridiculous - of course you tell them you got married. Otherwise it's called FRAUD.
Why haven't you told them already?
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Parenting payment single (and FTB) & married...
Should I tell them we got married? What is the difference per fortnight in payment? And if I tell them, does hubby get on the health care card too? He works full-time, but is a low wage earner...
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Don't be ridiculous - of course you tell them you got married. Otherwise it's called FRAUD.
Why haven't you told them already?
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Yes of course, if your aren't single then you shouldn't be on single parenting.
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Um. Yes. If you're worried how much the payment will go down think about how much you will have to pay back once the realise you are married. They will go back to your date of marriage, possibley even before then if you have been living together, and make you pay back every cent that you weren't eligible for.
ETA: just noticed that you had your bub after you got married........ ??????? How did you get approved for PPS?
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Yes you should tell them.
Data matching is a wonderful tool; Centrelink are connected to more agencies than you realise so even if you don't tell, they will find you. It's fraud.
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Ouch! I would definitely tell them right now. As the PP said, they data match with many various agencies so it will only be a matter of time before they find out you're married... as Lulu said it is fraud.
A family friends ex wife was claiming PPS when he was with her, and she ended up owing them over $17k... that was in the mid 90's and they had the means & the ways to trace her right back to when she first started living with him.
Do the right thing now before the debt becomes too much for you to pay back.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Assuming you were already living together before you got married, I STRONGLY suggest you call them tomorrow and advise them of the date you got married and take it from there. You will probably find they might be ok with changing you to partnered from the wedding date, rather than before and you won't have to pay back as much.
Clink would rather have you on the correct payment at the end of the day.
I totally agree Lulu. I am actually appalled that you haven't already.
Last edited by Lulu; February 23rd, 2010 at 09:29 AM.
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On thinking about this a bit more you need to call them first thing tomorrow. The fact that you were granted parenting payment single after you got married means you actively lied to them on forms and I can't imagine they are going to react well, especially if you leave it a long time. Please don't leave it any longer, Centerlink fraud can become a criminal conviction.
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Lucy said it more politely than i could have!
you're married. you lied when you told them you were single and claimed PPS
hopefully you've simply worded this question wrongly and you're querying parenting partnered but with baby brain and all that stuff you've just said single. i will give you the benefit of the doubt. your baby is only a couple of weeks old so you may not even have been granted a payment yet. so, i'll play devil's advocate and say you typed the wrong word - giving you benefit of the doubt and all that jazz
yes, you can claim a parenting payment if you are partnered. you partners income has to be below around 1400 before tax is deducted (am working from memory - could be a bit more than that). yes, ftb will be based on both of you. if you qualify for a health care card, you entire family will qualify
if you have gone and claimed parenting single, ring and fix it to parenting partnered tomorrow morning, first thing
your sig tells everyone your circs - you need to be honest about it or it will come back and bite you on the bum big time!
Deez & Fiona married Sat 12th December 2009 and our lil Caulbearer Elly Wendy Olive-Grosser
Born Fri 29th January 2010, 12:38am, 38 mins late for Daddy's birthday!
Water baby born at home and in the Caul! 6'10", 49cm tall, 32cm head
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Hi Phynna,
If you go to the centrelink website you will be able to work out what you are entitled to.
I too also suggest you let them know before the debt becomes too big and you'll struggle more to pay them back.
I am not going to give you any slack about claiming PPS or if you lied etc, just let them know first thing and fix it
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Thing is other half and I split up last year and started living seperately.
Whilst we've reconciled now, at time of application for dole after work put me on maternity leave, the situation for C/link was that we'd split, and were amiacable, then while we did marry until 3 weeks ago we were still living seperately (4 hours seperately), despite weekends together.
I'll ring tomorrow. Ta
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It is good that you are going to ring them.
You can't just claim single because you aren't living together. There are plenty of people who for various reasons are living apart. Imagine if all the miners and defence force spouses could claim benefits just because their partners were working away.
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Everyone said it more politely than I would have!
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Living apart does not mean you can claim PPS. You are still in a marriage/marriage like relationship. He is still supporting you isn't he? Alot of partners are away for months at a time.
yeah i think you need to ring and tell them your situation, i dont think that they will believe that you married but were'nt living together when the baby was born.. if im understanding you correctly. and i think if you're married, you wouldn't be eligible for PPS unless you could prove you had seperated.
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yup - just cos you don't share a residence doesn't make you single. defence force, miners, truckers wives - we'd all be able to claim single status for x number of days per week if that applied. you obviously reconciled if you tied the knot. the day you reconciled is the day you should have notified centrelink. what bed you sleep in doesn't define your partnered status - there is much much more to it than that
i get VERY annoyed at the notion that is out there that spending 3 or less nights together a week means you're not "partnered" - pfffft. if that's the case, from the day DH and I got together until September last year, i was single!
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There is an additional category of Partnered but living apart isnt there, BG? Would she qualify for that or is there only certain conditions where that can be applied?
I was discussing this the other day with a friend but centrelink cannot put her as partnered as he is unable to come to centrelink to sign the form.
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