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Shortly after my husband and I brought our house, he was made redundant. We were'nt married at the time, just living together. To tide us over whilst looking for another job, he went to see what Centrelink assistance he could get.
He did the right thing (or should I say wrong thing in hindsight) and told them we were living together. Now since we were in a de facto relationship, I was earning too much money for him to receive ANY assistance at all. Now understand, we took over a 50% cut in wages due to his redundancy, he's paid taxes all his life and now goes to ask for help in the interim, and he can't get a bloody cent. How arse about is that?!?! I'm now suppose to support both of us, pay the mortgage, bills etc. He should have lied and just said we were flatting together.
They were really tough months. Just because you have less money coming in, unfortunately doesn't always mean you can reduce the amount going out.
I've had a beef with this since it happened ........ just needed to get it out.
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ciao bella!
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