Centrelink Wrong Payment Received 46 K

puglix on 27/04/2023 - 03:14
Last edited 27/04/2023 - 11:19 by 1 other user

My wife coiple days ago she received a notification from centrelink she going to received an amount of 46k in the her bank account in a couple days and a $500 fortnightly payment.

My wife straight away call centrelink and after over 1 hr wait in line she explain the situation the money she going to received is not her money and sent wrongly on the her bank account, they tell her to download a special form to fill em up and bring to centrelink, she did and explain to them we don't want that money bcs they cause problems to us. She brought the form and they tell to my wife they have to do the investigation and the money they already on the way, they cause a prolem to us, bcs they show to us all this amount of money in the bank account.

In this situation what we can do, creating us stress of the situation, wasting time to us for their mistake, would you think we can et any compensation of the distress they cause to us?

What you think?

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  • phr0 on 28/04/2023 - 09:48
    +3

    Sounds like the hallmarks of a scam.

  • Spootage on 28/04/2023 - 09:48
    +2

    You don’t get compensation. Be an adult.

  • Eeples on 28/04/2023 - 10:12

    Could it be a payment for flood damage?

  • mountaineer on 28/04/2023 - 11:33

    So side question, who the hell CL was trying to pay in the first place and for what? $46k from a welfare organisation is really a lot!

    • Ziggy28 on 28/04/2023 - 16:54

      Must be the quarterly bonus to a staff member

      • greatlamp on 29/04/2023 - 07:35
        +1

        Even the decent places to work in the public sector don't pay bonuses

      • MrFrugalSpend on 29/04/2023 - 08:24
        +2

        yeah, incentive bonus for meeting the quota for denying applications…
        "So who told you that mate?" - see: Garn: Every Centrelink worker ever

      • MrThing on 30/04/2023 - 13:21

        Must be for Cartier watches

  • shap08 on 28/04/2023 - 11:54

    Keep it and pay minimum $40 repayment a month.

  • Dack Smith on 28/04/2023 - 12:35
    +1

    Sounds great - the bozos gave you free money!

    • Protractor on 28/04/2023 - 12:40
      -2

      Sounds great appalling - the bozos gave you free taxpayers money!

  • jackking on 28/04/2023 - 13:18

    Dont spend but Put in offset or high savings account

  • JimB on 28/04/2023 - 14:01
    +1

    "would you think we can et any compensation of the distress they cause to us?"

    Yes, for sure.

    You can claim $46k.

  • xdigger on 28/04/2023 - 14:33
    +3

    How on earth does one receive $46 K from Centrelink?? We truly are the lucky country, no wonder the USA is selling us overpriced submarines.

    • Ziggy28 on 28/04/2023 - 17:00

      Soon we will be spending trillions more on obsolete weapons etc, while our capital cities start to look like the streets of LA and Chicago

      • smartazz104 on 28/04/2023 - 19:35

        We won't end up like Chicago, since people can't just import guns from interstate…

    • Motek Benzona on 28/04/2023 - 17:24
      +1

      This amount can easily be the outcome of an appeal which meant back pay from the date of application. Its not uncommon for these things to take..well a LONG time

      This means for that entire time the person has been without the money they were entitled to

  • herecomestheoost on 28/04/2023 - 15:13

    :D

  • jatbinks on 28/04/2023 - 17:52
    +1

    You can transfer it to me.

  • ldq on 28/04/2023 - 18:07

    Sounds like a scam, but had I received a payment like that I would not have lifted a finger to send it back. I would not spend it, but would milk the interest for as long as it takes them to reverse it.

    • rekke on 30/04/2023 - 08:55

      Send an email to their support email address and then transfer it to the HISA for "safety" reasons. By the time they get back to him, he might have accrued $3000 in interest :)

  • lgacb08 on 28/04/2023 - 19:01
    +1

    I knew a guy in Canada once got $50k by mistake from their centrelink equivalent 20+ years ago. He took the money and ran back to the place he was born and set up a new life there, pretty much giving up his citizenship. Apparently he was doing alright last time I saw him.

    • WhyAmICommenting on 28/04/2023 - 20:54

      What a scoundrel!

    • umoddbro on 29/04/2023 - 03:06
      +4

      for 50k? You can work a year and make that…. Now if it was 500k or 5 mill that would be more worth it. But giving up your citizenship for a measly 50k sounds like a raw deal.

      • Ridiculous Panda on 29/04/2023 - 05:07
        +1
        1. It was 20 years ago.
        2. Canadian dollars.
        3. You can make $50k a year but you probably have to spend at least 30 grand.
        4. $50k in a poor country can be great money if invested correctly.
        5. I hated the cold and was already homesick.
      • lgacb08 on 02/05/2023 - 13:16

        $50k or the right to live in the a first world country where you can be frozen to death 9 out of 12 months a year is debatable (but I heard you only paid 3c/kwh so it's not that bad). But back then $50k could buy you one third of a house in Canada or 2 houses in where he moved to. Now house prices are probably equal so it's not a bad deal if you know how to manage your money I guess.

  • silverhawks on 28/04/2023 - 20:16
    +3

    Sounds like a scam. Pretending to be centrelink and give a number or link to another website that looks like centrelink. Then when u talk to them. They tell u to refund your real money back to them, whereas they will show u a fake one to u.

    • WhyAmICommenting on 28/04/2023 - 20:54

      Hopefully OP doesn’t even have 4.6k to give them!

  • drfuzzy on 28/04/2023 - 21:07

    The government can send me $46k to marinate in my offset account while they figure out how to get it back.
    I won't try asking for compensation for the "distress" of it.

  • CocaKoala on 28/04/2023 - 21:39
    +9

    Sounds like a common scam. It's not centrelink giving you the money. In fact, nobody will give you any money but someone is going to ask you for it. Just be careful not to transfer any money to anybody, no matter what.

    Centrelink knows how to take it back from your account if it was really really them, but somehow I suspect it's got nothing to do with centrelink.

  • Hvrd on 29/04/2023 - 08:43

    a system limitation prevents payments of $20,000 or more for jobseeker (slightly different for other income support) so if there is an error with the amount it will probably get picked up. Otherwise they will ask you for it back or request the bank to refund it.

  • MND on 29/04/2023 - 10:26

    If you receive any notice via SMS or email, log onto MyGov and check that inbox. If it's not in the myGov inbox chances are it's a scam.

  • dclee12 on 29/04/2023 - 11:23

    Centrelink has a high rate of new staff, so its not impossible that someone has stuffed up and backdated a long forgotten payment application.

    Theres a small chance It could be something fraudulent, someone using your identity to make claims etc. If youre concerned , a password change of your mygov accounts would help.You can also request a verbal password on your centrelink account.

    If the payment actually passes and makes it to your account then it’ll take between a week and a month for them to sort out a request for the bank to reverse it.

    Everything will be done between them and the bank. There won’t be any compensation.

  • holdenmg on 29/04/2023 - 14:10

    Owing 46 K to Centrelink is just so passé… lol

  • Davo1111 on 29/04/2023 - 16:25

    Why the heck would you wait on the phone? Send them a letter, upload into the system. Job done

  • bazingaa on 29/04/2023 - 17:16

    Just to know, can I have a centrelink account if I haven't dealt with them ? Only time I went there is to get enrolled to Medicare.

    • randomusername2017 on 30/04/2023 - 21:02
      +1

      No
      You'll need to create a centrelink account to obtain your unique customer reference number.
      Then sit back and wait for the 46k notification.

  • denserham on 29/04/2023 - 18:48

    How did you get the notification, could it be a scam at all?

  • T-man on 29/04/2023 - 21:43

    By now OP realized this is a scam right? And the money will never be in her account unless you have to pay some “withdrawal fees”

  • hasher22 on 30/04/2023 - 00:28
    +1

    What's the point of contacting centrelink of a notification?

    I get scam notifications all the time and just ignore them. If you do get the money in the bank account, then that's when you take action and call centrelink.

    You guys are stressing for nothing, I would stress if it was a notification I OWE centrelink 46k then I would go into mygov and check any official letters.

  • AMLagonda on 30/04/2023 - 00:34

    I wouldnt be stressed about $46grand dumped in my account??

    Why is the op so worried about it, seems like a guilty conscious to me like there is more to the story.

    hmmm makes more sense that this might just be a scam.

    • Protractor on 30/04/2023 - 10:29

      Cynic!

      I must admit I too feel there's a 'supplementary' part of this story missing. (Maybe the fear of 'discovery'?) because>
      " they have to do the investigation"

      Hopefully CL gets to the bottom of it.I doubt we'll be seeing any gaps filled here, by the OP.

  • ialam99 on 30/04/2023 - 07:22

    Wow…i never realised there was such honest people in the world. I would have kept quite about it to see how long it would take centrelink to realise what they have done and pocket the offset savings in the meantime.

    • AMLagonda on 30/04/2023 - 12:38

      Seems they just want to be a victim…… "sigh"

      None of the story make much sense like I said.

    • hasher22 on 30/04/2023 - 14:25
      +1

      It was a notification, they didn't get any money…. yet

      Most likely a spam scam notification

  • MrThing on 30/04/2023 - 13:21

    High interest savings account and wait till they ask for it back

    • denserham on 30/04/2023 - 18:05

      $190 a month ain't 2 bad, especially if they are slow to ask for it back

  • J6 on 30/04/2023 - 14:43
    +1

    Sounds like a scam to me…

  • tinnybastard on 01/05/2023 - 06:23

    Sadly it's very unlikely OP give us a follow up or explanation for this.

  • xsacha on 02/05/2023 - 12:39

    Interesting that this story came out where 46k was claimed after a mygov hack:
    https://www.9news.com.au/national/mygov-hack-melbourne-woman…

    Very similar story and I think the OP should not be dismissing that this money is likely not going to them.

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