I read this morning about a woman who got $2mill from a Centrelink mistake, and rushed out and spent it all. Now she's been charged.
<duh>.
I'd have to ring them asap and get them to take it back.... they always get you in the end anyway.
What would you do?
_wombat_ said
04:47 PM Mar 11, 2012
Rip and Rosie wrote:
I read this morning about a woman who got $2mill from a Centrelink mistake, and rushed out and spent it all. Now she's been charged.
<duh>.
I'd have to ring them asap and get them to take it back.... they always get you in the end anyway.
What would you do?
Put it in a swiss bank, then go live in South America
animalcarer said
04:58 PM Mar 11, 2012
OOOh What an elegant criminal, I hope she had time to buy a Louis Vuitton bag, Silly silly girl. Wombat is right on this one, she should have scarped somewhere she could have got value for her dollar.
I mean 2 million centrelink did a kickup the talk about dumb
Gerty Dancer said
05:38 PM Mar 11, 2012
Geez I'd be terrified theyd charge me with fraud.
But if it truly was a gift, we might spend some on a better caravan, and continue the travelling that we enjoy so much!
PeterS said
05:49 PM Mar 11, 2012
Just move it to a high interest account with the interest paid monthly into a separate account and wait for the stupid gov to ask for it back. Thats almost $7000 a mth @ 4% , that would do me just nice. Their mistake and their money would still be waiting for them.
bill12 said
06:14 PM Mar 11, 2012
I think I would keep fishing til its all gone..............
DandS said
08:31 PM Mar 11, 2012
2 mil, faking my own death springs to mind.
-- Edited by DandS on Sunday 11th of March 2012 08:32:34 PM
nomadic1 said
10:21 PM Mar 11, 2012
You wouldn't see me for dust! I'd be on the next plan out of the country. Though PeterS suggestion might make the most sense I think the temptation to leave the country would be overwhelming for me.
Cruising Granny said
10:35 PM Mar 11, 2012
I think Peter S has it right. Term deposit is currently 5.5% for 5 months. I wouldn't spend it, but they'd have to wait to get it back. No fraud there, just query time to get it sorted out. It just goes to prove there are some dimwit "gherkins" working at Centrelink. I wonder how long it took before they realised their error. It seems the recipient wasn't speaking up any time soon. Not smart.
Happywanderer said
04:04 AM Mar 14, 2012
They always seem in no hurry to get it back. Some years ago I was overpaid a full fortnights pay. I rang them straight away. They can't take it back out but what they do is send you a bill with a chit on the bottom, you have to pay it at aus post. That was the case back then,. It has a barcode on the chit. It took ages to get them to organise it but at no time did I touch that money. I knew it wasn't mine and if I spent it, it would be so much harder finding that money again to repay it. That stupid woman knew it wasn't hers. She deserves all she gets.
Wizardofoz said
11:47 AM Mar 14, 2012
Centrelink has plenty of money to get rid of...I got a call about 18 months ago asking me to take a trial worker on, I said "sorry I don't need anybody", the girl then said, "please take one we have $400,000 to get rid of by the end of the month and we have to use it or hand it back, we pay 80% of their salary, if you don't like them you can terminate them after the 3 months expires, just don't do it before that or we will be in trouble".
Apparentlt the government was dishing zillions to boost the employment figures, so why would they worry about a paltry $2million that was going to a good worthwhile cause
-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Wednesday 14th of March 2012 11:48:36 AM
-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Wednesday 14th of March 2012 11:49:43 AM
I read this morning about a woman who got $2mill from a Centrelink mistake, and rushed out and spent it all. Now she's been charged.
<duh>.
I'd have to ring them asap and get them to take it back.... they always get you in the end anyway.
What would you do?
Put it in a swiss bank, then go live in South America
I mean 2 million centrelink did a kickup the talk about dumb
But if it truly was a gift, we might spend some on a better caravan, and continue the travelling that we enjoy so much!
2 mil, faking my own death springs to mind.
-- Edited by DandS on Sunday 11th of March 2012 08:32:34 PM
It just goes to prove there are some dimwit "gherkins" working at Centrelink.
I wonder how long it took before they realised their error. It seems the recipient wasn't speaking up any time soon. Not smart.
Some years ago I was overpaid a full fortnights pay. I rang them straight away. They can't take it back out but what they do is send you a bill with a chit on the bottom, you have to pay it at aus post. That was the case back then,. It has a barcode on the chit.
It took ages to get them to organise it but at no time did I touch that money. I knew it wasn't mine and if I spent it, it would be so much harder finding that money again to repay it.
That stupid woman knew it wasn't hers. She deserves all she gets.
Centrelink has plenty of money to get rid of...I got a call about 18 months ago asking me to take a trial worker on, I said "sorry I don't need anybody", the girl then said, "please take one we have $400,000 to get rid of by the end of the month and we have to use it or hand it back, we pay 80% of their salary, if you don't like them you can terminate them after the 3 months expires, just don't do it before that or we will be in trouble".
Apparentlt the government was dishing zillions to boost the employment figures, so why would they worry about a paltry $2million that was going to a good worthwhile cause
-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Wednesday 14th of March 2012 11:48:36 AM
-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Wednesday 14th of March 2012 11:49:43 AM