Results for: Centrelink Fraud
The wife of former NRL player David Fifita has been sentenced to eight months in jail for rorting Centrelink of almost $50,000 in single-parent Centrelink payments…
Non-genuine couples who have orchestrated “fake marriages” to gain Australian visas and then claim separate welfare cheques will be stripped of entitlements as part of a nationwide crackdown to be announced by the Federal Government today…
Hundreds of couples are claiming false marital and relationship status to rort millions of dollars from Centrelink…
A married couple have chosen to live in Lebanon, but have frequented Australia for the birth of each of their children, solely for the purpose of claiming a raft of family-based welfare payments…
THE federal government has dropped cases against 18 people charged with welfare fraud following a High Court ruling over retrospective legislation…
A SINGLE mother will have to repay more than $15,000 in Centrelink overpayments she claimed while working for an insurance company…
A Berkeley man will avoid spending the next six months in jail as long as he keeps paying back the $22,000 he illegally pocketed from Centrelink…
A HIGH Court ruling has put into doubt thousands of prosecutions against people on welfare who did not tell Centrelink their circumstances had changed…
A $2 million payment error was deposited into a Sunshine Coast mum’s bank account because a child support worker typed the date into the payment field on her computer…