Centrelink is like the tax office.
If the rules have holes in them, people will exploit those weaknesses.

About 20 years ago, there was a pommie guy where I was 'staff' who somehow managed to qualify for the full dole, special extra dole and the whole cost of his mulit endo + CIR.
They wrote him a blank cheque, so he basically took his time. Unfortunately, he was a completely hopeless student and never finisished the training or did the flight tests.
That money was not available to us because we were just ozzies and weren't special.

:rolleyes:

RENURP showing ingnorance
 

Don't you just love RENURPP's comment?

Clearly you have lived a charmed life RENURPP! Lucky you.

Something I have learnt is -

Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan.

Until you walk a thousands miles in someone's moccasins, perhaps open your mind and realise there life ain't always that simple.:=

I moved for a flying job which fell through and it took me some time to get any work let alone regular work. Even when I applied for strawberry picking jobs there were hundreds of applicants! Yep strawberry picking ffs!! I didn't have the money to move again to get work and certainly didn't have the money for a renewal.

I have done all sorts of **** jobs throughout my life but I ended up on centrelink for a wee bit (painful experience that was!). I certainly would have taken up the offer for money (even a loan) to get my IR renewed if it existed.

It certainly does become a vicious cycle sometimes and well news for you RENURPP - in some areas this is high unemployment and when you are competing with thousands of public servants being laid off from the Federal and State governments it can be tough to get work.

An observation: the incorrect use of your and you're by aviators seems to be a common phenomenon.
I have also observed pilots like to say "I done it". I have to restrain myself from thumping them.