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Athlete's Wife Who Stole ,000 In Welfare Payments Doesn't Go To Jail
01-25-2018, 03:16 AM
This is an extreme case of the pussy pass. Her family and friends decided to give her money that she will never pay back so that she doesn't have to pay the full price for her fraud.
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Athlete's Wife Who Stole ,000 In Welfare Payments Doesn't Go To Jail
01-25-2018, 03:54 AM
Are they going to pay the cost of investigating and prosecuting her?
I'm guessing that would run to 100k at least.
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Athlete's Wife Who Stole ,000 In Welfare Payments Doesn't Go To Jail
01-25-2018, 04:08 AM
My guess would be the two counts were to avoid paperwork, entice her to plead guilty, and because she rorted single parent benefit.
Despite what you might think, unemployment benefit in Australia is actually pretty tricky for the average flathead to rort unless they have a colluding employer and they're smart about how they arrange their affairs. Most UB cheats are detected by crossmatching financial records with employer records since most everyone in Prison Australia has a tax file number they have to submit to open a bank account without getting hammered maximum tax rate on any interest there.
Single Parent Benefit, however, is another matter. It's a lot more difficult to prove if you want to bring someone down because partners can break up and get back together with impunity (and often do if you work in the socioeconomic group that most often claims it) and unless you have a social security officer peeking in windows or counting men's shoes under beds (which they did do back in the old days) someone can assert quite happily that they're single and it'll be the devil's own job to prove otherwise ... which is what the Commonwealth has to do. There was an old book - Dolebludging: A Taxpayer's Guide written by a Peter Sawyer (a former social security claims assessor) - which went into detail about every single hole in every benefit in the social security system as it then stood. Admittedly that was back in the 1980s, but even reading it now there are themes that I imagine are probably still being heavily rorted.
Back to SPB, for example. Back in Sawyer's day, you were disqualified from SPB if you were in a bona fide domestic relationship (which is what Jade "Fifita" got nailed for). Where Sawyer lived in rural Western Australia, bona fide relationships began and ended with the fishing season. Hubby would go on a boat for several weeks or more, wife would claim she'd been "abandoned", and go on SPB, at least until hubby came back ... at which point she would quite honestly claim she had "reconciled" with her partner, and they both went on unemployment benefit for the rest of the year.
However, since it's against the law for kids under the age of 16 to be banging each other, SS necessarily could not recognise that two 16 year olds were in a bona fide domestic relationship. Therefore, any kid under the age of 16 who shat out a kid could be living openly with her Maori boyfriend and happily claim single parent benefit, at least until she turned 16, at which point she has a "fight" with her boyfriend and the saga can continue. Sawyer did not pretend to know the age of the youngest SPB recipient in Australia, but he had personally processed applications for 12 year olds.
In short, SPB is like any other government payment built for good intentions but with no objective checks and balances: easy to be rorted if you tell the right lies, because the claims officer who assesses your application has no power to exercise any discretion over whether to grant the claim or not, even if you turn up in an Armani suit and drive away from the Centrelink office in a Ferrari.
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Athlete's Wife Who Stole ,000 In Welfare Payments Doesn't Go To Jail
01-25-2018, 04:17 AM
You gotta watch the Tongans. They can be some crafty gypsyish motherfuckers. She might have gotten some help from the in-laws. I know Tongans that run circles around welfare. If you don't get ebts, section 8, disability and a medicaid prescription of oxycodone to sell, you are the black sheep of the family.
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Athlete's Wife Who Stole ,000 In Welfare Payments Doesn't Go To Jail
01-25-2018, 05:41 AM
Watch out for soy boy at 2 o'clock in that photo.
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Athlete's Wife Who Stole ,000 In Welfare Payments Doesn't Go To Jail
01-25-2018, 09:04 AM
Who gave her the money? Parents?
To be perfectly honest, If I was a middle age dude of moderate means or greater and she was my daughter, I'm quite sure I'd pay up in a heartbeat to bail her out of this situation... same if it was my son who did it.
I'm not sure if that would be good parenting or not... Let's hope I never have to find out.
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Athlete's Wife Who Stole ,000 In Welfare Payments Doesn't Go To Jail
01-25-2018, 09:31 AM
She looks kinda special
English broad? Some British chicks just look like they're mom and dad are cousins.
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Athlete's Wife Who Stole ,000 In Welfare Payments Doesn't Go To Jail
01-25-2018, 10:42 AM
Dammit.
Their, not they're
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Athlete's Wife Who Stole ,000 In Welfare Payments Doesn't Go To Jail
01-25-2018, 02:03 PM
Do they even have women's prisons in Australia? It seems every judge's mission there to not send any woman to prison, no matter the crime. Who are those "big butch Sheilas" that Schapelle Corby was trying to avoid?