Centrelink customers share tips on Facebook on how to work the system to get more money

Centrelink customers have shared their stories on how they manage to work the system to earn more taxpayer money.

Hundreds took to a Facebook group explaining the avenues they took to save money and hide it from the Australian Government in order to keep their benefits. 

Many revealed they saved thousands from welfare as one woman claimed her relative managed to save $30,000 in a term deposit ‘for a funeral fund’.

Thrifty Centrelink customers have shared their crafty tips online (stock image) about how they manage to work the system to earn more taxpayer money

Hundreds took to a Facebook group explaining the avenues they took to save money and hide it from the Australian Government in order to keep their benefits (pictured)

Hundreds took to a Facebook group explaining the avenues they took to save money and hide it from the Australian Government in order to keep their benefits (pictured)

 Many revealed they saved thousands from welfare as one woman claimed her relative managed to save $30,000 in a term deposit 'for a funeral fund' (pictured)

 Many revealed they saved thousands from welfare as one woman claimed her relative managed to save $30,000 in a term deposit ‘for a funeral fund’ (pictured)

One mother explained she saved $1200 from $20 monthly payments per child over four years which she kept in a trust fund for her kids (pictured)

One mother explained she saved $1200 from $20 monthly payments per child over four years which she kept in a trust fund for her kids (pictured)

One mother explained she saved $1200 from her $20 monthly payments per child over four years which she kept in a trust fund for her kids.

However, the woman claimed the government advised her to ‘spend what she saved … otherwise they would cancel (her) sole parental benefits’.

‘When you are in receivership of a Centrelink benefit, they dictate what you can and can’t do – they control you financially,’ she said.

WAYS CENTRELINK CUSTOMERS ARE FLEECING BENEFITS

  • Hiding money in a safe
  • Withdrawing large cash sums from accounts to hide in a money tin
  • Blaming large cash withdrawals on ‘gambling’ habits
  • Hiding money under the bed
  • Creating accounts in other names
  • Giving money to relatives to mind 

‘Lesson learned, I never did it again, I instead opened bank accounts in their names.’

A single mother claimed she had $500 in a savings account but has ‘other savings’ which she ‘gives’ to her ‘father weekly … to hold’ so she doesn’t have to ‘show it’.

Others shared their thrifty money hiding skills to fleece taxpayer funds including withdrawing cash to hide under the bed.

‘Just take chunks out of the bank and say you have a poker machine addiction,’ one person suggested. 

‘Just buy a safe, problem solved,’ one said.

‘We put our savings in a cash tin so it doesn’t affect payments,’ another commented.

One thrifty saver suggested putting their benefits in accounts under their children (pictured)

One thrifty saver suggested putting their benefits in accounts under their children (pictured)

Dozens suggested people could save their welfare by withdrawing large cash sums from their accounts and claiming they wasted it on a 'poker machine addiction'

Dozens suggested people could save their welfare by withdrawing large cash sums from their accounts and claiming they wasted it on a ‘poker machine addiction’

One person slammed the money saving skills and said benefits were meant for those who were struggling - and if they were saving then they mustn't be in 'hard times' (pictured)

One person slammed the money saving skills and said benefits were meant for those who were struggling – and if they were saving then they mustn’t be in ‘hard times’ (pictured)

‘I was told only last week that if I put some money away into another account and only use it for cash transactions, what they (Centrelink) won’t know won’t hurt me,’ someone explained.

One welfare recipient suggested there was ‘nothing wrong with saving money’ and advised others to have an ’emergency fund’ with up to ‘$2000’ in it.

However some people slammed the idea, saying if they have money to save then they aren’t struggling.

‘Benefits are meant to be a backup for hard times – you are not in hard times if you have that amount of money,’ one person wrote.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted the Department of Human Services for comment.

One welfare recipient  suggested there was 'nothing wrong with saving money' and advised others to have an 'emergency fund' with up to '$2000' in it

One welfare recipient suggested there was ‘nothing wrong with saving money’ and advised others to have an ’emergency fund’ with up to ‘$2000’ in it



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