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I assume you have discussed your intentions of being overseas with Centrelink? I know they have different regulations and requirements as to what can be paid and for how long. I was under the impression you had to return to Australia every 13 weeks or so to remain eligible?
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i had discussed it with them i can come back every 3 months but it would not be worth it. so as soon as i leave the country my payments would stop
Hi schmierer LR at singleton,
You may be running in to the same problem as my brother. After you complete your first bachelors degree you are generally unable to claim Austudy or Youth allowance if you want to go on and complete a second bachelors degree.
The only way that I know of getting back on to one of these allowances is to undertake study at a different level of learning ie. going from undergrad to masters or phd.
If you are still doing your first degree. It took about six weeks after I had handed in all the paper work for payments to start. It took a little longer for me because I had wait for my savings to fall below the threshold.
As for the overseas part. All of my friends who have chosen to study overseas have either had to take out loans with their parents as guarantors or worked their butts off to save enough because you will not get government assistance studying overseas (unless something has changed).
Cheers,
Craig
thanks craig, my liquid assests is under the threshold. i have opted for the work my ass off and try and save money, i cant and dont want to take a loan. the only way you can still get centrelink overseas is if it is part of your course.
and for anyone who is interested the only option for my fiance and i to be together is for me to go over there as it would be impossible for us to remain here as i could not support her because i would need a salary of over $26k and i study fulltime and she is doing uni and she would have to pay full fees here in aus to do uni which would be more then $26k for sure per year.
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Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton
You made life choices, its not up to the "guddiment" to support that, you've gone and got a job we see from your posts
To my eyes....the system has worked:D
the whole point of the student allowance is to support students study so they dont have to work heaps to cover their everydays costs as well as uni costs, so hasnt the government failed
i think alot of people are getting confused. as they refer to centrelink as you dont have a job. but they have heaps of different things then the stereotype of dole bludgers
or maybe what i should do is hecs all my fees and then never work in australia so i dont have to pay them... now thats an idea
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Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton
Not really, its about supporting those that can't support themselves, merely to get them by, not allow them to have a "life"
You can support yourself and necessity has done that, you've now got a job
Its not there so you can be a student and not have to work.....I mean, they already give you a loan with HECS
Sorry mate, but you've made a choice to be with your partner and like the big bad ugly world around you, it has consequences
Hell, I can't get by working one job, with my life choices of having a stay at home mum to look after the rugrats, so I work 2 jobs to maintain my own personal "life choice"
Its nothing about being a "bludger", its about ones expectation for the "guddiment" to support your choices
I mean someone has to pay for your airfares etc...for your choice...should they contribute to someone about to move overseas, which may never enter back into the country and pay tax in that country, i.e. contribute back into the pool of funds of welfare?
its like people who **** up all there money, then expect a pension when they are no longer able to contribute to said "pool" of welfare funds, then they whine that the pension is not enough for them to have a "life"
Same stuff, life choices, just different spectrum of life