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Post by Banjo on Nov 29, 2012 9:47:35 GMT 7
You wait and they decide.
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Post by aussierick on Nov 30, 2012 5:56:05 GMT 7
yeah that's true, but like I said I wonder what they do to take that long to decide?
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Post by Banjo on Nov 30, 2012 7:23:40 GMT 7
Just remember they're dealing with enormous numbers of people on a daily basis and are under considerable budgetary pressure. The whole department is in a state of change... DSP, NewStart, supporting parents changing to new benefits, everyone complaining and wanting things done straight away....
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Post by Denis-NFA on Nov 30, 2012 7:53:50 GMT 7
and just to add to that Banjo if that is okay ... most of them are not allowed to make a decision...and I say that with all respect for the people...the workers...
everything has to go through proper channels and finally be signed off by some poor bugger that is sitting there having to do that....
and if he or she stuffs up its there backside on the line....
as much and all we complain it is still up to us to make the argument for circumstances that are outside the norm....
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Post by aussierick on Nov 30, 2012 8:17:32 GMT 7
and that I do understand, and not that I am complaining (yet LOL), but you would think the decision wouldn't take that long.
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Post by aussierick on Dec 1, 2012 8:36:07 GMT 7
well this has got to be one for the record books, I had a letter on my centrelink account about my newstart, and when I get to the main page, I find that I have 2 PENSION payments this week. Although I haven't been officially informed, but it looks like I was approved for the pension. I didn't think it would be this quick.
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Post by Banjo on Dec 1, 2012 9:18:41 GMT 7
Great news Rick, I think that the system does work for most people, it's just those who don't fit the standard mould get a hard time. Keep in touch eh?
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Post by aussierick on Dec 1, 2012 9:47:44 GMT 7
Thanks Banjo, but now here is the real question I am due to do my income reporting for newstart on Monday, should I still put one in or not?
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Post by Banjo on Dec 1, 2012 10:25:47 GMT 7
I'd still drop by, you haven't heard officially yet. Up to you.
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Post by aussierick on Dec 1, 2012 10:51:09 GMT 7
yeah I was thinking the same thing.
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Post by aussierick on Dec 3, 2012 2:53:19 GMT 7
Ok guys it's official now, I have received a notice from Centrelink that it has been judged that I have a capacity of less than 15 hours a week of work and have my DSP application approved. Thanks for you help guys. I don't think it would have been successful without your help.
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Post by baranghope on Dec 3, 2012 4:20:27 GMT 7
Congrats! Aside from knowing the type of JCA questions you were going to be asked (which you were well prepped for), ATTITUDE is another important element. It might sound stupid, but you have to really tell the mandarins and their factotums you WANT ON THE DSP. This might sound obvious but it is more subtle than that. Often they use interviewers with Psych 101 who will explain to you say, your mental illness self entrapment, looking for your enlightenment in order to deny you the DSP. "What about the XRAYS," you have to say, which show you have no neck vertebrae or whatever. You have to club them into submission, until you get the right backoffice staffer who makes that call you want. They tell you nothing at meetings.
I crawled up a stairwell into an attic warehouse in Marrickville, home to the only communist Centrelink in Oz at that time, and the lovely fuzzy wuzzy lady looked at me and my cane and said: "Do you want the DSP?" Someone home. I only had to nod.
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