Having them ready will help you finish your claim and not delay the process. For your Special Benefit claim you must provide bank statements for the last 3 months for all accounts you have. This includes any overseas accounts. If you have a partner, we'll also require bank statements for all accounts held by them.
Centrelink requires details of your income and assets to determine your eligibility for income support and at which rate it should be paid. You will need to advise Centrelink of the balance of your bank account, investments, assets you hold and any additional income you earn.
Centrelink has very wide powers to thoroughly investigate deposits that have been made into your account. For example, it has the power to obtain your information from other government agencies as well as accessing information from banks, building societies and credit union accounts.
While it's true that Centrelink doesn't have direct access to your bank account information, there are consequences for deliberately not telling Centrelink about changes in your circumstances.
You and your partner must have no more than $5,000 in combined readily available funds. This includes any liquid assets you can sell. Liquid assets include cash you have on hand, money you have in the bank and financial investments you have. They also include gifts and other money available to you at short notice.
The liquid assets waiting period is between 1 and 13 weeks. It applies if you have funds equal to or more than either: $5,500 if you're single with no dependants. $11,000 if have a partner or you're single with dependants.
Centrelink False Claims
Giving false information on relationship status, disability status, or understating income with an aim of receiving benefits from the welfare or social security warrants a cause for action.
You have savings or other money
If you or your partner have liquid assets over certain limits, you may have to wait 1 to 13 weeks. Liquid assets are any funds readily available to you or your partner. This includes money owed by your or your partner's employer. Read about liquid assets waiting periods.
Your Australian bank account statements are accessible to the ATO. The ATO is endowed with extensive legal authority, which allows it to access your personal bank information. Because of these capabilities, the ATO is able to get your Australian bank statements straight from your financial institution.
For your Special Benefit claim you must provide bank statements for the last 3 months for all accounts you have. This includes any overseas accounts. If you have a partner, we'll also require bank statements for all accounts held by them.
If you have defrauded Centrelink, you may be charged under section 134.2 – obtaining a financial advantage by deception. If you are found guilty, the maximum penalty is 10 years imprisonment.
You must tell us about any lump sum you get, even if you think it's exempt from the income test.
Taxable income is the amount you receive after you take away all your allowable deductions from your assessable or gross income. Gross income includes: Salary and wages, lump sum payments, money from business or self employment, rent, interest, investments and dividends. partnership and trust distributions.
We may lock, suspend or revoke your access to your COA, or parts of it, if: you do not comply with these terms of use. we think your COA was used in an unauthorised transaction, or. you are no longer eligible for a COA.
To detect Centrelink clients failing to declare assets, we match all beneficiaries against trust data from the tax return database.
Do banks look at your transactions? Bank tellers look at your transactions but cannot see what you purchased. Looking at the money coming in and out allows tellers to assist with your account.
Typically, the only parties that can check your bank statements or your account information are the account owner(s), authorized account managers and bank professionals. Banks take great care to maintain the privacy and security of their customers' personal information.
The Work Bonus income bank is useful for pensioners who wish to work, particularly those who undertake intermittent or occasional work. Note: from 1 December 2022 to 31 December 2023, a one-off, temporary credit of $4,000 applies to Work Bonus income bank balances.
We assess all asset types as part of the assets test. There are limits to how much your assets can be worth before they affect the amount you can be paid.
A payment to help students with the cost of moving from regional or remote areas for tertiary study. The Tertiary Access Payment (TAP) is a one off payment of up to $5,000. It's to help eligible students with the cost of moving to study.
The maximum penalties for Centrelink Fraud is 10 years imprisonment for offences of obtaining property and obtaining a financial advantage by deception and 5 years imprisonment for an offence of general dishonesty.
You need to tell us if any of your or your partner's personal circumstances change. These changes could affect your payments. If you don't tell us, we may pay you too much. This means you may get a debt and you'll need to pay us back.
Correcting a mistake
You will need to upload evidence of changes to pre-filled income that you already confirmed. This could be a new payslip. To fix a mistake for a reporting period more than 6 fortnights in the past, you need to call us on your regular payment line.