Done with Centerlink

If I ever have to have Centerlink again at least I now know how to navigate my account on line. Thank you. <3

Thank you so much for your help and I did find the assets from October 2016. We don't own many of those any more and there is no update link at the top or bottom. There is an i for information saying I am assessed under the income test. 
Told ya, its talk to the hand.

Hi Brenda, if you have a mygov account with centrelink linked.  
Click on Centrelink so you go into their website.   On the top left of the centrelink page there are 3 lines (next to the word centrelink).  
Click on the three lines and a menu will drop down.
Click on "Income & Assets", then on "View/Update Income & Assets" and it will take you to the page with all your income and assets.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see what bank accounts and shares they have you as having.

At the very top and bottom of the page there is a link to update your assets if they have them wrongly listed.

If you want to change your assets click on that link and it will take you to a new page.
To change them, select the categories you want to update.  If you need to update two categories (ie bank accounts & shares) I would do them all at the same time as if you make a change over $2000 they will lock your account and send you a letter (or text however they contact you) asking for some details. 

I don't have anything to change so wont go further than that and tempt the centrelink gods, but you can follow the prompts.

If you want to make a complaint via their online portal, click on the 3 lines at the top again for the menu, and down the bottom is a link to the page where you can submit a complaint or suggestion. I found the complaints people to be incredibly helpful. 

I hope that helps you :) 

You can of course question them but you have to have the patience of a saint, the perspicacity of a lawyer and the aggressiveness of a badly trained Rottweiler. So it  depends on how much of your precious energy you want or can expend. Not right. Not easy to fix. 

I would love to find that mygov section as they will not sustantiate how the hell they got $202,000 when my shares are only $182,000 well under their threshold of $190,250. I gave them a physical printed out version of our portfolio and uploaded it myself in to my documents uploads but they totally ignore that. They are God and there is no questioning them.

Do you have a mygov account Brenda?  I can change my shares via the centrelink part of mygov.  I change them, and then they automatically send me a letter to say they need evidence and I drop it in.    The people in the complaints section of that are really good too if you are having problems. 

By the shares I have (bought with a bank loan against our house mind you) I am still under the threshold. However, Centerlink seems to recognise shares bought, but not shares sold as in share trading one for another. They say I have over $202,000 in share assets! I wish! They will not let me clarify and if I want Newstart, I have to reapply and do the whole assets thing again. Hubby does not want me to pursue it. Not with my heart troubles lately and he has a blood clot in his leg which if it doesnt kill him in the next 3 weeks, he should be ok. Stuff Centerlink.

That’s bullshit @brenda. What a bunch of bloody arseholes. How the fuck they can predict that shit is totally ridiculous. I’ll have the lotto numbers too and then I’ll share it with all the lovelies on here and we can all tell Centrelink and the government to go fuck themselves. 30 million tonight in the lotto I’ll be getting a ticket for sure. Margie. Xx 

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I cannot see how this can be remotely legal let alone ethical. We should all start tapping into the information bsse Centrelink has about the stock market as obviously we are missing out. What total rubbish.