On May 20, 2014 I will have been out of work and looking for 4 months now. Up until the 29th April, I was not entitled to Centrelink payments due to the redundancy payment from Traffic Technologies, which meant that for 3 months the family was living on the pension that mum and Peter are receiving. The reason for this is that the redundancy payment was put against the mortgage to keep the bank off our backs.
Centrelink comments were that it was to live on, and not to go onto the mortgage – so was up to me to sort it out. The only way around it was to have documentation from the bank to so we had forfeited on the mortgage and were in arrears, which we weren’t.
Such is life when dealing with government agencies.