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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 168242" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We do have a lot of help, especially our health care system. Our GST pays for a lot of it (it's been a great money-spinner for the government). The downside to it all is the interconnectedness of all the information. For example Centrelink knew independently that difficult child 1 had a job, because a new employer has to file the new employee's tax file number, and that notification went straight to Centrelink. Also, if difficult child 1 doesn't pay back any money they say is owed, Centrelink can just take it from his pay.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 1 got his disability pension back in 2000. If he has to reapply, he probably won't get it. Right now it's almost impossible to get. There was a case on TV last week of a woman who had a stroke. She can't stand or walk unassisted, she can't feed herself. But they won't give her a disability pension. Not only that, because she's not on disability, she MUST register for work and go to job interviews.</p><p></p><p>I heard about another woman, the aunt of one of difficult child 3's drama classmates, who Centrelink told to go to a job interview or else she would lose her (fairly meagre) payment. She was 8 months pregnant at the time, and repeatedly told them so (plus had already sent in doctors' reports to that effect) but did what she was told and went to the job interview. The personnel officer was horrified - no way could they employ a woman who should have already (by law) been off work waiting to have her baby.</p><p></p><p>On the surface we seem to have a generous and supportive welfare system. In actuality, it's a nightmare. But it's so interconnected with so many areas, so many government areas that we MUST register for, that we can't escape it.</p><p></p><p>Our health care system, for example, is caught in it as well. And every Australian citizen is registered each with their own number, for health care. We often have to pay extra, sometimes a lot, but it is good to know we have some health cover. However the lack of privacy that goes with it, and the way it hooks us into the complexity of government departments, is a problem.</p><p></p><p>And difficult child 1 is going to have to deal with this somehow.</p><p></p><p>Not a hope in - purgatory!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 168242, member: 1991"] We do have a lot of help, especially our health care system. Our GST pays for a lot of it (it's been a great money-spinner for the government). The downside to it all is the interconnectedness of all the information. For example Centrelink knew independently that difficult child 1 had a job, because a new employer has to file the new employee's tax file number, and that notification went straight to Centrelink. Also, if difficult child 1 doesn't pay back any money they say is owed, Centrelink can just take it from his pay. difficult child 1 got his disability pension back in 2000. If he has to reapply, he probably won't get it. Right now it's almost impossible to get. There was a case on TV last week of a woman who had a stroke. She can't stand or walk unassisted, she can't feed herself. But they won't give her a disability pension. Not only that, because she's not on disability, she MUST register for work and go to job interviews. I heard about another woman, the aunt of one of difficult child 3's drama classmates, who Centrelink told to go to a job interview or else she would lose her (fairly meagre) payment. She was 8 months pregnant at the time, and repeatedly told them so (plus had already sent in doctors' reports to that effect) but did what she was told and went to the job interview. The personnel officer was horrified - no way could they employ a woman who should have already (by law) been off work waiting to have her baby. On the surface we seem to have a generous and supportive welfare system. In actuality, it's a nightmare. But it's so interconnected with so many areas, so many government areas that we MUST register for, that we can't escape it. Our health care system, for example, is caught in it as well. And every Australian citizen is registered each with their own number, for health care. We often have to pay extra, sometimes a lot, but it is good to know we have some health cover. However the lack of privacy that goes with it, and the way it hooks us into the complexity of government departments, is a problem. And difficult child 1 is going to have to deal with this somehow. Not a hope in - purgatory! Marg [/QUOTE]
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