Did you guys see the uproar in the media when Centrelink started tapping people on the shoulder regarding taxpayers money they weren't entitled to. We need a big adjustment here. Things are back to front.
The Centrelink fiasco was just a little bit more complex that you make it out - but don't let the facts get in the way of your rant.
The Centrelink fiasco was initiated when a computerised program was introduced to scan all money transfers to welfare-recipients bank accounts, and penalise them accordingly if bank payments were found that didn't jell with the recipients stated income.
Unfortunately, said program could not identify the source, nor the reasons, for said payments - so Joe Blow, the welfare recipient was immediately classified as having unstated income, if he'd paid a bill for a friend or family member, and that friend or family member re-imbursed them.
This re-imbursement was immediately classed as "income" in the Centrelink computer program - and no Centrelink employee was authorised to alter the computer decision, even after a believeable explanation was produced by the welfare recipient.
The Centrelink stuff-up penalised tens of thousands of innocent pensioners, genuine welfare recipients, and genuine disability pensioners - whilst allowing the deadbeat drug dealers on Centrelink benefits, to continue with their major cash-income sidelines.