wow i just caught up.
Well what utter scum, and yet again we see people murdered for their centerlink payments and it going undetected for years.
I think the theft and fraud was a fortuitous coincidence for the perpetrators and not the reason for it.
These days Centrelink cut payments if your child does not receive age appropriate immunisations. Also if your child does not receive a four year health check etc etc. I wonder if Medicare and or Centrelink started asking questions re Khandalyce and that's when the payments were stopped. Perhaps the person who stole her identity got scared and stopped accessing the account after that. Just a thought.
Also, is it odd that someone would be cut off their only way of surviving and nobody would ever chase it up, like you would think Centerlink would expect you to have contact with a case worker or a social worker at least sometimes?
This is unreal.
Not to Centrelink. People jump off benefits every day - they certainly are not going to argue the point with them.
Yes I meant to ask if anyone knew how long they kept cctv footage for. another thought, don't Centrelink check photo ID? ..
..sorry I was assuming that the woman in the wheelchair must have presented herself to Centrelink pretending to be Karlie with her id, cards etc etc.
You don't need to present any ID when fronting at Centrelink. I don't even need my card, as I remember all my numbers and just rattle them off. They wouldn't be able to implement a system whereby people had to present photo ID, as many recipients may not have any. Most people only have a drivers license, and if they don't have one of them...
Maybe they need to look at fingerprinting scanners to ID people, which would be easy enough to do. The government could sack the redundant public servants they have to pay for it - apparently there are plenty of them.
The thing is though, the system is able to be abused. Just look at how many assumptions are on this thread alone about how Centrelink works. The need for face to face visits in recent years has lessened as well. You almost have to argue to see someone at times, as they will direct you over to the phones or the computers.
That said, it is not their responsibility to do welfare checks on their recipients. In fact, there would probably be privacy laws that are strictly enforced that would disable staff from wondering too hard about any individuals.
I can almost picture the types of people that would commit a crime such as this - out of a bunch of them, one or two may have a reasonable IQ, but the rest would be fairly low to average, with animal like cunning and no morals. They may be dumb, but they do know how to rort the system. They don't really think of consequences, but I bet you anything when they finally come before a judge you will hear all about how hard their life has been.
I can't wait for the arrests to start.
Would like to see if the clothes match a few photos of wanted women for crdit card theft.
