Originally Posted by
jamescollister
Well did the centerlink thing today, what a nightmare, first, tried to register for medicare, not resident, not entitled to medicare.
I must prove I am returning permanently, how do you do that I ask. show you are shipping your furniture back, that you have cancelled your foreign rental lease, bought a house in Australia.
Tell them, if I can't get medicare I may as well start the process for a disability pension, no treatment for my eyes and I will go legally blind.
So I had to get a JP to witness a statement saying we were staying and a letter from the kids school principle that the kids were attending school.
They will now consider the application, FFS I'm not a Thai resident and if not an Australian resident, am I stateless.
As to newstart and family payments, you have to do it all on computer, so the woman give me a code to log on for benefits, say I am unlikely to be able to work until my sight is stabilized, wife is now the bread winner.
They said something about 7 weeks waiting for an outcome as to any assistance, just to top off my day, medicare woman says Macular degeneration my not be covered under medicare or there will be a long waiting list for treatment.
Not the sort of problem that can wait, macula bleed, blind in a few weeks, so much for the safety net and all those years of taxpaying.