[LINK] Centrelink computers to keep tabs on the dead and flying

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Lea de Groot wrote:
> On Wed, 09 May 2007 08:25:39 +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> 
>>A system to link death notices to the Centrelink computers will 
>>become part of the Federal Government's weaponry against welfare 
>>fraud.
> 
> 
> I've never seen it documented, but there seems to be some sort of 
> state-based record system in Centrelink.
> A few months after I moved from South Australia to Queensland I got a 
> nice letter from them telling me that I either needed to arrange for my 
> former partner to make child support payments or pop down and see them 
> to discuss how they could help me get the money out of the tight 
> bastard (err, I may be misremembering their wording...)
> I popped down and showed them the death certificate and the problem 
> quietly vanished away with a polite letter of apology.
> I can only assume that the records didn't transfer interstate properly, 
> but why would this be siloed by state?
> I don't know. Very odd.
> 
> Lea
I think the Child Support Agency is a different mob to Centrelink and 
are not welfare.

I think they are more closely related to the ATO, who probably found out 
about your change of address from your bank.

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