A grandmother has been jailed for five years after she taught people how to rip off Centrelink from her housing commission home. A judge described Rebecca Assie, 62, and her actions as a ...

Centrelink is digitising paper-based forms that have been completed by applicants in an effort to improve the efficiency of its operations. The Minister for Human Services Chris Bowen, said the agency ...

Access to Centrelink phone services has not improved since the National Audit Office released a damning report on the low standard of customer service, despite the Government's promise that it would ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A 61-year-old south-west Sydney woman who had been claiming Centrelink benefits for 23 years was found with almost $250,000 in cash in a ...

Centrelink has been urged to review its privacy policy and invest in some locked filing cabinets after a Melbourne woman was unwittingly given a stack of forms that were already filled out by a ...

In evidence, Elisabeth Hollis, aged in her 40s, stated her ignorance and put any blame on her husband, Brian Hollis, because she ‘trusted him’ to take care of all householdfinances, including ...

If there is one piece of the aged care puzzle that is enough to send many families and potential residents into a heightened state of anxiety, it is revealing their financial affairs to Centrelink for ...

AN immigrant has conned Centrelink out of tens of thousands of dollars by faking reports claiming his son was seriously ill. Mohammed Hasan admitted cheating the welfare system by pocketing a carer’s ...

A mother-of-five stole almost $150,000 in welfare payments by falsely claiming she was a battling single parent, despite being in a relationship the whole time. Toni-Maree Richardson, 34, neglected to ...

Stephen John Woods appeared before Maclean Local Court on Tuesday to answer three charges of receiving a financial advantage from a Commonwealth entity. On the first charge between January 31, 2006 ...

The Federal Government has again urged welfare-seekers to stay at home as massive queues formed outside Centrelink centres across the country for a second day. Despite overnight upgrades to the MyGov ...