I see Tony Burke is there with her looking at his options. Up side is if we get rid of the pollies that rort the system there won't be anyone left to run the country Pete
We went in there for the first time on Monday to apply for the Aged Pension. What an uplifting experience it was sitting next to ''drugged out dole bludgers'' while we were waiting to talk to someone. Hopefully we won't have to do it again.
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Cheers Desert Dweller.
Our land abounds in Natures gifts. Of beauty rich and rare.
We went in there for the first time on Monday to apply for the Aged Pension. What an uplifting experience it was sitting next to ''drugged out dole bludgers'' while we were waiting to talk to someone. Hopefully we won't have to do it again.
My one bit of advice is, before you hand any paper work to this mob of Losers, make a couple of copies of it,
they are number one in the loosing forms stakes, the number of times we had to find replacement forms for them was unbelievable,
Yes , one does have to go and spend countless hours sitting beside Drug addicts, Hobos, people from every corner of the world,and sniffling kids, You could be lucky and actually see a couple of Aussie's amongst the Mob, on a good day,
Then there is the ones who think they have a right to be top of the list and get real shirty when they have been sitting waiting for only a couple of minutes,
Best of luck with your future application, lets hope you don't die of boredom or patience in between visits.
K.J.
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We went in there for the first time on Monday to apply for the Aged Pension. What an uplifting experience it was sitting next to ''drugged out dole bludgers'' while we were waiting to talk to someone. Hopefully we won't have to do it again.
My one bit of advice is, before you hand any paper work to this mob of Losers, make a couple of copies of it,
they are number one in the loosing forms stakes, the number of times we had to find replacement forms for them was unbelievable,
Yes , one does have to go and spend countless hours sitting beside Drug addicts, Hobos, people from every corner of the world,and sniffling kids, You could be lucky and actually see a couple of Aussie's amongst the Mob, on a good day,
Then there is the ones who think they have a right to be top of the list and get real shirty when they have been sitting waiting for only a couple of minutes,
Best of luck with your future application, lets hope you don't die of boredom or patience in between visits.
K.J.
When it was our turn it took less than 5 minutes with a staff member. We handed in completed, signed & dated Application & Assets forms. She photocopied our Drivers Licences, Birth Certificates & a few other proof of identity documents. Then said that they know nothing about Aged Pensions & will forward everything to HQ. You'll be hearing from HQ & all correspondence will now be over the phone. Goodbye. LOL.
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Cheers Desert Dweller.
Our land abounds in Natures gifts. Of beauty rich and rare.
See if you can find a Centrelink that is for us oldies. There are a number of them around and they only deal with Seniors. And they know what they are talking about, makes it if not a pleasure at least unpainful to deal with them :)
Ordinary people steal, politicians rort. Ordinary people lie, politicians mislead.
As for CentreLink, they have a file on my parents that is about 6 inches thick, mostly full of their own mistakes and my corrections. It became so frustrating that I decided to only respond to official correspondence. I still have a letter which advised my parents that their pensions were cancelled because their combined assets made them ineligible. It turned out that some idiot clerk added a zero and didn't bother checking for the obvious error. After I reported the error, CentreLink corrected it and reinstated my mother's pension but did not do the same for my father, despite the fact that both pensions were based on their combined assets. So I had to contact them yet again.
On another occasion I advised them that my parents had closed one account and transferred the funds to a new one. Another idiot clerk, or perhaps the same one, recorded the "new assets" but didn't delete the old ones, so their assets were effectively doubled, resulting in another cut to their pensions.
Then there was the data matching error at their end, excreta, excreta ...
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