#centrelink

[nando161mando]

#jerktrillionaires #jerkbillionaires #jerkmillionaires #centrelink #welfare #capitalism #fascism #homeless #poverty #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #anti capitalist #capitalist hell #washington capitals #capitalist dystopia #capitalist bullshit #class war #oppression #u.s. house of representatives #repression

[myrtaceaae]

#polls #this poll due to my suffering that centrelink said i would get a call soon and it has been 54 minutes. and i need to pee #about me #Centrelink

[laapplepie]

Reblog to scare an Australian

inspiration: https://x.com/AisuAsai/status/1780118754590179702

#vtuber #industry logos as vtuber logos #shitpost #sorry not sorry #woke up and chose violence #centrelink #australia

[gayemoji]

LOL scammers think centrelink would bother contacting people about their payments 😃

#omg money from centerlink ?!?! tysm guys let me click that link rn ! 😱😱 #cinterlink. sinterklaus. #centrelink #straya #m

[vamp-orwave]

Jumpscare

#auspol #centrelink #blabla

[cydie]

services australia vent

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i'm on a benefits payment that allows me to study full time

throughout the past few years, my record has probably passed through tonnes of people and when something like that happens - where one job is passed through multiple people, it's not always done to the right standard

services aus has made plenty of life altering mistakes that have cost me hours of my time to chase up

these are benefits that keep me alive, and dealing with it has been more than stressful

over the past several years, i have struggled with abusive relationships, psychological damage, and heavy mental health issues

because of these, it has stopped me from studying many many times and i have struggled so much to finish my degree

in light of recent events spanning from july 2022 to now, my life has been on an up and down spiral, mostly down

and the way i feel about my life right now is very much sincerely complete despair and dread

i think about suicide every second day

when i cross the road i think i could be selfish, ruin someone else's life and end mine and i would be done. finally

my heart and soul has taken so so many hits over the past couple of years that i am so fragile and i'm not who i used to be anymore

i care too much, give too much, get scared too easily, and i have nobody

i'm trying so hard to live the healthy girl life but my house is a MESS

it's just clutter in boxes

and maybe that's a psychological clue to say that i need to overcome whatever is going on in my head so that i can find the motivation to overcome what is going on in front of me

they think i have adhd. maybe i do. but maybe its just trauma.

will the psych be able to tell?

i always present to psychology whenever i have trauma or when i'm in a rough spot, but never when i'm good. so my diagnosis has always been a reflection of me when i'm not me

but whenever i talk about me, i feel like an imposter, like i won't be believed

i'm not lying, but one of the worst feelings is when you know you're telling the truth but nobody will believe you

and so you feel hopeless because you're like "how tf do i prove this?? i wasn't lying to begin with so its not like i was prepared to prove it???"

anyway i digress cos holy shit this wasn't supposed to be a giant tangent on how my life is shit

anyway

i called services australia today

and thanks to my myriad of medical certificates, withdrawn study periods and the length of my study, my record is a hot mess

i was on the phone for half an hour trying to figure out my benefits payment issues

the lady i spoke to on the phone was kinda defensive in the beginning which to be fair, she probably deals with a lot of arguing but she went through my record and maybe she realised that i was getting stressed

and that my record is like 50 medical certificates and a lot of people have touched my record and changed things that haven't been my fault

she said she would look at all of my medical certificates, and match them up to the correct dates

and reassess my allowable time for study tonight

and call me tomorrow

and the fact that she was willing to do this for me i was touched

but when she said "i wouldn't be worried about this, bc i'm pretty confident about this. i just need to make sure everything is there and matched up, and if this ever comes up again, they're all in one spot."

"i just want you to breathe, i promise it sounds a lot more overwhelming than it is. i just think there's a lot of people that have been on your record and done things, i think it would be easier if i just redid it all so it's one person's work on there instead of a bunch of different people"

i'm sobbing

"try and relax tonight, try not to think about it, i promise it sounds more overwhelming than it is"

it is so relieving to be seen and to be treated with kindness

#personal #centrelink #services australia

[insanity-keeps-things-fun]

I'm very stressed out at the moment.

I living in a granny flat on my parent's property; I have done for the last 5 years, when it was meant to be transitional. And I'm having trouble actually moving because even at the age of 24 I've never been employed. And struggling to apply for jobs, because I'm autistic, I'm dyspraxic, I've got inattentive ADHD; and the employment agencies I've been to bounced me around to different people every few months, so I had to keep re-explaining my issues with finding work.

I've got an ESat appointment tomorrow, maybe that'll lead to something, probably not DSP, maybe linking me up with agency that's actually a disability specific employment provider? I'm not holding my breath, I went through this process once before in 2019, but maybe I'll be better at understanding what they mean when they aske if something has a "functional impact on activities"

#personal #rant #disability #neurodivergent #autism #autistic #actually autistic #actually adhd #actually dyspraxic #centrelink

[nando161mando]

Demand the end of the supermarket duopoly!

We only have a few days to demand meaningful change in Australia's unjust grocery sector, with submissions to the inquiry closing on 2 February.1

Together, we need to seize this moment. Otherwise, we risk sending a dangerous signal to the supermarket duopoly and other corporations cashing in on the cost-of-living crisis that they can continue profiting from our struggles without consequences.

#woolworths #coles #iga #supermarket #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #poverty #welfare #centrelink #gst #tax #corporate greed #greedy bastards #greedisthecreed #class war #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #letters #submissions #cost of living #greedflation #anti capitalism

[aturinfortheworse]

fun conversation this morning that definitely wasnt a waste of everyone's time

centrelink: you need to work more me: i can't centrelink: if you can't work more, you need to be on the disability pension me: i'm not eligible for the disability pension centrelink: ... then you need a temporary medical exemption me: but the problem isn't temporary centrelink: ... ....... we can support you, so you can work more hours? me: can you give me an example of how you'd do that? centrelink: i cannot centrelink: i'm gonna make that my recommendation

#centrelink #im just. #there isnt a category for health problems that might improve over the course of SEVERAL YEARS #it took me six years to get my migraines this well managed! #the step 'increase this one med' took six months! and we STILL dont know if its gonna work long term #(because its the LONG term) #i mean ITS FINE #i can probably get the DSP #its just gonna take a tonne of time and money #I JUST CANNOT BELIEVE #that they can accept the reality that i cant work the minimum number of hours #that a non-DSP person can work #but that is totally unrelated to accepting that i should be on the DSP #YOU ARE THE ONE WHO SAID I NEED TO BE ON THE DSP #*YOU* ARE TELLING *ME* THAT I NEED THE SUPPORT THAT *YOU* SAY IM NOT ELIGIBLE FOR

[myrtaceaae]

Me: I cannot speak sometimes. Can be random, but stress is also a factor

Centrelink, who knows this: phone call??? Phone call queen??? Virtual appointment!??? For you??!???? Please say yes??!!!

Me: *unable to respond because I rely on fucking pen and paper.*

#about me #centrelink

[theshampyon]

Nearly 90% of people on income support payments say the inability to cool their homes in hot weather is making them sick, and even those who have air conditioning avoid using it because it is too expensive, a survey by Australian Council of Social Service has found.

...

Nearly two thirds of those surveyed – 72.1% of whom were renting privately or in social housing – said they were unable to cool their homes down in periods of hot weather.

Some 89.4% said they sometimes or always felt unwell in the high heat, while 29.8% said they had needed to seek medical care for heat stress, with elderly people or those living with disability worst affected.

Nearly 70% of people surveyed had air conditioning of some form in their home, though many reported it did not function well or only lowered the temperature in one part of the house. Some 94.5% of people with air conditioning said they avoided using it because it cost too much.

I experienced this first hand when I was growing up in housing commission. The place was poorly insulated, poorly ventilated, and had zero air conditioning. We didn't have the right to install air conditioning and couldn't afford it anyway. We were lucky if we had more than one functioning fan (which caused fights between us kids when one would "hog the fan" by sitting in front of it). The bills soared in summer, making more stress as Mum had to figure out how to keep us cool and still pay the bills. Job interviews back then were guaranteed failures - who's going to hire a guy who's already soaked to the bone with sweat before he even hops on the bus to get to your offices? We didn't have the higher level of vulnerability to the heat that our many elderly neighbours had, but it still hit us every December-January.

And all this is before the relative cost of electricity reached it's current height, before the daily peak temperatures and UV levels were this extreme, before the cost of living skyrocketed. We were living through the "recession we had to have" back then, times were tough, but folks living on pensions and the dole are doing it far worse now. Some of this is caused directly by the current financial situation (which, yes, is worse than the recession of my childhood), some of it is caused by a lack of foresight or care in the construction of low income housing, some of it is caused by a lack of investment in the improvement of our energy grid... So many factors, all of them out of the control of the people who are always hit the hardest.

#auspol #australia #centrelink #social housing #electricity bill #housing commission

[thisselflovecamebacktome]

I complain about this every fortnight, but the fact that I have to go to a job searching appointment so I can get government benefits just for them to be like “oh, you’re alive? k, cya next fortnight” every fortnight pisses me off far more than it probably should. It’s literally the biggest waste of time + travel money, especially when it can happen via phone call/email. And to all the cry baby workers (read: public servants because that’s who it usually is) out there that are like “Well we have to pay to go to work when we could be working from home too!” I’m a big believer in anyone who can work from home should be, but like even if I didn’t, ya’ll are going to work to do a job. I am literally going to this appointment for no reason. I’d be less pissed if they had me do stuff there.

#auspol #aus pol #australian politics #politics #centrelink #i was talking to a friend last week and genuinely working full time takes less effort for me than being on government benefits #like it's such a stupid system just to receive less than the poverty line. and yes it's better than nothing but still stupid nonetheless #also even if i was working full time i'd be pissed that my tax money is going towards jobsearch companies that do nothing rip

[danny-ric]

Have to drive 100km every day for 4 weeks to attend a pointless training module which isn't relevant to me just to get 15 points, and a 400km trip to attend a job fair in a city I don't even live in (but hey, 20 points. Also when will i have time for this if i'm going to be at a training module for 30 hours a week in a town that's 260km away?), and an online learning module for 5 points (again, when will i have time for this?), all while somehow finding the time to apply for jobs and attend interviews.

Whoever thought Workforce Australia was a good idea is absolutely fucking cooked.

#workforce australia #australia #australian government #centrelink #job searching #jobseeker #personal