Things that give you the sh1ts

[Wedgie]

If you’re sure that you don’t owe they much I’d be going to have a chat win a lawyer too

I wouldn’t advice that.
You’re talking about Centrelink Benny.

Email, Call, go into their office and be nice with them is the only way to deal with Centrelink unfortunately.

I found the opposite and it used to shit me. People that would go in and scream and jump up and down or complain to their MPs or Ombudsmen would have their issues addresed immediately. People that were nice and wait patiently would get their issues addressed last.
No need for lawyers though, you can get better service from organisations that don't cost a cent. A lawyer would be a major waste of money.
People rarely involved lawyers but if they did they would be sent to the back of the queue with the patient and nice people and generally lawyers were clueless about the process. An accountant would be of more assistance but not necessary still

[Lightning McQueen]

Have you received an overpayment solely for Child Support only or Family Payments?

Family payments, despite the percentage of care I've had the kids I have always paid an agreed amount of child support.

OK, thats a lot different to child support. I could see what has happened in your post happening if child support was involved with shared care arrangements, etc.

In regard to Family Payments, Centrelink will have all information going back the entire period (you would have received this too over the years in letters and group certificates also) as to how much you were paid for each year.
IF you've received an overpayment for more than you received (which I must admit I never saw in the 28.5 years i worked there) then it will be an open and shut case and they would fix this immediately upon you pointing this out to them.
Without you going too much into it on here which is understandable I would suspect there's more to it.

Yeah, I have every document, which includes estimated earnings for the forthcoming year (usually May), then my tax lodgement (July), then my assessment/adjustments based on "actual" earnings.

I think it is my best interest to just take an afternoon off and take all my documents in there, it gets too hard to explain over the phone and I get where you're coming from.

I've read everything that relates to the assessments in question.

[HH3]

CSA have scared me with a couple of huge amounts they claimed I owed.

One time they called me from a private number. I answered, got dead air, hung up. Two weeks later my employer got a big red letter saying I'd actively refused to pay the amount by hanging up on a consultant, and they were garnishing my wage.

One hour long phone call later, it was all cleared up, and I was actually ahead in my payments, like I have been for nearly 8 years.

At one point I was using CSA as a saving tool. Pay extra, and you can get the amount you're in front paid back to you at any time.

[Wedgie]

LM, if you were overpaid more than you received than you wont even need to worry about estimates v real income, its an open and shut case.
If you want to visit a Centrelink office make sure you have an appointment booked.
Personally I'd try and avoid offices like Noarlunga, Salisbury, Elizabeth, etc and find a quieter one.

[Lightning McQueen]

CSA have scared me with a couple of huge amounts they claimed I owed.

One time they called me from a private number. I answered, got dead air, hung up. Two weeks later my employer got a big red letter saying I'd actively refused to pay the amount by hanging up on a consultant, and they were garnishing my wage.

One hour long phone call later, it was all cleared up, and I was actually ahead in my payments, like I have been for nearly 8 years.

At one point I was using CSA as a saving tool. Pay extra, and you can get the amount you're in front paid back to you at any time.

Yeah mate, putted on them greens before, once you are behind they slap on a ridiculous arrears fee each month and make it damn near impossible to claw back.

[Lightning McQueen]

LM, if you were overpaid more than you received than you wont even need to worry about estimates v real income, its an open and shut case.
If you want to visit a Centrelink office make sure you have an appointment booked.
Personally I'd try and avoid offices like Noarlunga, Salisbury, Elizabeth, etc and find a quieter one.

If I was overpaid more than I received?

Yeah, I'd go to Prospect, closer to work and home.

[Wedgie]

LM, if you were overpaid more than you received than you wont even need to worry about estimates v real income, its an open and shut case.
If you want to visit a Centrelink office make sure you have an appointment booked.
Personally I'd try and avoid offices like Noarlunga, Salisbury, Elizabeth, etc and find a quieter one.

If I was overpaid more than I received?

Yeah, as I said before I'd never seen it happen but thats what you said happened to you in your original post about the issue.

PS I must have been out of the game a while, didn't even know there was an office in Prospect!

[Lightning McQueen]

They are saying I was overpaid for the year, they have previously said they have calculated my assessment for the same year based on my circumstances and earnings for that period and had made adjustments accordingly, this was in June 2016 for the 2014/15 assessment, they actually topped me up a little as they said they had underpaid me, now they are doing a backflip saying I was overpaid.

[Wedgie]

They are saying I was overpaid for the year, they have previously said they have calculated my assessment for the same year based on my circumstances and earnings for that period and had made adjustments accordingly, this was in June 2016 for the 2014/15 assessment, they actually topped me up a little as they said they had underpaid me, now they are doing a backflip saying I was overpaid.

Yeah I know mate, that's all irrelevant if they've paid you X amount and are now saying you're overpaid X + Y as that will be an open and shut case that would be fixed immediately.

[Corona Man]

Getting sledged in an Auckland pub last night for being an Aussie. Did you bring your sandpaper was the call.

[bennymacca]

Getting sledged in an Auckland pub last night for being an Aussie. Did you bring your sandpaper was the call.

did you reply with nah the sheep dont like it?

[Booney]

Getting sledged in an Auckland pub last night for being an Aussie. Did you bring your sandpaper was the call.

"No sandpaper here mate and congrats to your Mum and Dad, it's not every day cousins can produce such lovely offspring as yourself".

[carey]

Getting sledged in an Auckland pub last night for being an Aussie. Did you bring your sandpaper was the call.

"No sandpaper here mate and congrats to your Mum and Dad, it's not every day cousins can produce such lovely offspring as yourself".

I can picture you saying this with a pint in 1 hand, a nice swagger going on and a huge grin on your face!

[Booney]

Getting sledged in an Auckland pub last night for being an Aussie. Did you bring your sandpaper was the call.

"How are you blokes getting on over here? Price of lamb keeps going up and up, last I heard it was about $40 an hour, that right?"

[Corona Man]

Getting sledged in an Auckland pub last night for being an Aussie. Did you bring your sandpaper was the call.

"How are you blokes getting on over here? Price of lamb keeps going up and up, last I heard it was about $40 an hour, that right?"

Should have had you with me Boon.

[Booney]

Getting sledged in an Auckland pub last night for being an Aussie. Did you bring your sandpaper was the call.

"How are you blokes getting on over here? Price of lamb keeps going up and up, last I heard it was about $40 an hour, that right?"

Should have had you with me Boon.

You say that but....

[Lightning McQueen]

My day got better when I got home, opened a "final notice" for a speeding fine that had an extra $200 tapped on to it as it hadn't been attended to, what made it worse is that I didn't drive my car on the day specified.

[tipper]

My day got better when I got home, opened a "final notice" for a speeding fine that had an extra $200 tapped on to it as it hadn't been attended to, what made it worse is that I didn't drive my car on the day specified.

i didnt think race cars had number plates anyway?

get online and check the photos. they have been known to make mistakes. i had a red light fine cancelled after a phone call. they didnt believe me at first (im sure they hear it all the time) but one look at the photo showed the lady on the phone i was right

[Pseudo]

My day got better when I got home, opened a "final notice" for a speeding fine that had an extra $200 tapped on to it as it hadn't been attended to, what made it worse is that I didn't drive my car on the day specified.

i didnt think race cars had number plates anyway?

get online and check the photos. they have been known to make mistakes. i had a red light fine cancelled after a phone call. they didnt believe me at first (im sure they hear it all the time) but one look at the photo showed the lady on the phone i was right

^ Me too. Back in the day when you had to make a written request for the photo. I made the request, heard nothing, called on the final day to find out that the charge had been withdrawn.

I figure SAPOL is using Joe Public to do its quality control. They just send out the fines without checking. If any is in error then the receipient is sure to draw attention to it.

[tipper]

My day got better when I got home, opened a "final notice" for a speeding fine that had an extra $200 tapped on to it as it hadn't been attended to, what made it worse is that I didn't drive my car on the day specified.

i didnt think race cars had number plates anyway?

get online and check the photos. they have been known to make mistakes. i had a red light fine cancelled after a phone call. they didnt believe me at first (im sure they hear it all the time) but one look at the photo showed the lady on the phone i was right

^ Me too. Back in the day when you had to make a written request for the photo. I made the request, heard nothing, called on the final day to find out that the charge had been withdrawn.

I figure SAPOL is using Joe Public to do its quality control. They just send out the fines without checking. If any is in error then the receipient is sure to draw attention to it.

exactly. ive seen claims that "every camera fine is manually checked", and in my case it is obvious it wasnt. also has the bonus that some people would just pay it without checking. $$$

in my case the fine was for "disobey red traffic arrow". a series of very nice pics online. showing a commodore running the red turning arrow. my car was also in the photos, but clearly shown going straight (in the left lane) with a green light. automated system just focused on my number plate rather than the car that was actually triggering it for some reason (might have been more visible or something)

got the whole "sure it wasnt your car" when i called them up. obviously hear it a lot, but a few taps on her keyboard, and she had the photos in front of her and she quickly changed her tune. made sure id get a letter stating it had been withdrawn too.

check that the make/model is the same if the photos do show your number plate LM. ive also heard of people copying number plates of other cars so they can get away with shit.