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waitingman ([personal profile] waitingman) wrote2010-04-29 04:10 pm

Signed In Triplicate, Lost, Found, Lost Again & Buried In Soft Peat For 3 Months...

A day of abounding stuff...

The Department of Subsidising the Old, Disabled or just plain Dumb (DSODD), or Centrelink as it's more commonly known are a strange lot. They want me to provide an earnings statement for some bank shares I have because an old superannuation fund I have was converted to shares a few years ago & I receive an annual cheque for about $100. Given that I never even bother to declare it in my tax return ~ just like I don't claim for a lot of random charity donations, so it evens out ~ I have no idea how they found out about it, but they have decided to withhold my unemployment allowance 'til I convince them this yearly pittance is not a major source of income for me.

Having already visited DSODD a couple of times in my quest to remain vaguely solvent & been given, variously, the cold shoulder, the paperwork shuffle & the old-fashioned run-around, I'm beginning to think it will be simpler to find a new job than trudge the exponential paper trail DSODD lay out before me. Only time will tell.

May tonight be fruitful.

[identity profile] thebellman.livejournal.com 2010-04-29 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)
There is certainly no doubt or ambiguity about who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes...