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Post by viper1431 on Jan 27, 2015 18:21:09 GMT 7
Just got back from my trip. Do we know now what the procedure is for showing that we booked the flight before last may or whenever the budget announcement was ? They photocopied my iternary and scaned it before I left with rh booking date etc but that was all since she said no one knew anything yet about the new rules. Do they see the date it was booked automatically somewhere, I don't know if airlines/customs are linked that closely.. or do I need to get more proof of the booking date etc from the airline?
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Post by Banjo on Jan 27, 2015 18:28:40 GMT 7
I assume that the itinerary would be sufficient proof. I doubt the airlines or travel agents would provide them with passenger information but stranger things have happened. Do immigration get a copy of your itinerary on departure I wonder?
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Post by Denis-NFA on Jan 29, 2015 11:06:54 GMT 7
Just got back from my trip. Do we know now what the procedure is for showing that we booked the flight before last may or whenever the budget announcement was ? They photocopied my iternary and scaned it before I left with rh booking date etc but that was all since she said no one knew anything yet about the new rules. Do they see the date it was booked automatically somewhere, I don't know if airlines/customs are linked that closely.. or do I need to get more proof of the booking date etc from the airline? Makes an interesting juxtaposition between you proving you booked your flight before the 'gumint' said their thing and me getting knocked out twice for my thing!
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Post by bandicootbill on Jan 29, 2015 13:56:07 GMT 7
They required a receipt and itinerary for my wife who is travelling with me on a 6 week trip starting next week.
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Post by viper1431 on Feb 24, 2015 11:37:06 GMT 7
Well that sucks. even though I booked because may, I had a trip on the 14dec to 20Jan but it still counts even though they told me at centrelink it wouldn't, so I've lost all that time already. Annoying thing is if I didn't leave until the first of Jan on my trip then those 4 weeks wouldn't have counted. They bloody assured me when I was last at centrelink that the days in jan wouldn't apply because I booked before may, but now they say they do apply because I left in dec instead of after 1st jan 2015.
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Post by viper1431 on Feb 24, 2015 13:29:37 GMT 7
Can't work out how to edit, so to add to my above post, could someone look at this page and tell me if this applies www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/ssaola2014bmn6a2014608/sch5.htmlI just notice at the bottom it says nothing about having to leave after jan 1st 2015, just that you must be back before jan 1st 2016 (3) Despite subitem (1), the amendments made by this Schedule do not apply in relation to an Australian resident disability support pensioner's temporary absence from Australia if, before 14 May 2014, one or more contracts were made for him or her to be transported: (a) from Australia at the start of the absence; and (b) back to Australia before 1 January 2016 for the end of the absence.
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Post by Banjo on Feb 24, 2015 17:48:14 GMT 7
That's really strange, I had trouble understanding it, apologies to anyone who read my earlier replies. Did you talk to Centrelink International or your local office?
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Post by viper1431 on Feb 24, 2015 18:17:08 GMT 7
international
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Post by viper1431 on Feb 25, 2015 22:11:59 GMT 7
Well no luck today, I rang them again and showed them the acts (emailed the links etc and went through it all with them) The person I spoke to and her supervisor actually agreed with me and think that i'm right and the days shouldn't count, but said they can't do anything about it because they have to follow the interperataions they have been given from above even though it appears CL is missinterperating the act.. So I need to appeal and keep appealing or go through the local parliament.
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Post by Banjo on Feb 26, 2015 8:19:00 GMT 7
You lose nothing by appealing and if you win it helps others that come after you.
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Post by viper1431 on Feb 26, 2015 8:25:27 GMT 7
Yeah I've done the first step and put the review in, they said it will probably fail the first review but it has to be done before I can get to the actual tribunal. Also sent it to the onbudsman just incase it helps.
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Post by nomadic on Feb 26, 2015 19:24:10 GMT 7
Good luck V1431. But for every win at the SSAT are the two previous dills who reject them made to be accountable as total fools. How can these C/L dills continue to make the wrong decisions and keep their jobs while costing the taxpayer $millions in appeals costs. My own case cost hundreds of thousands. And when i finally won it proved they were the dills. Because it is all a game of bluff trying to demoralise us into thinking we can't win and not appealing which i am certain most do. Where is the media now? Chasing the one rorter and ignoring the thousands of us who were/are being rorted the other way. YES appeal it all the way V1431.
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Post by dakota on Mar 29, 2015 17:03:15 GMT 7
Please let me know how you got on. I am having a similar battle
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Post by viper1431 on Jul 18, 2015 7:05:05 GMT 7
Got back a couple weeks ago, the appeal failed although the cl girl did tell me that would happen and would have to take it to the next stage. For a bit of extra fun while I was away they sent me a dsp medical review.. due back 2 months before I even arrived back in the country.. *shrug* Didn't even know about it until I got home of course.
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