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How is it cheating the system? Youth Allowance payments are meant to be for ONE degree. Mine will be for two thirds of a degree. So, by common sense, I should be able to carry forward my 1/3 into further tertiary studies. Masters are for one extra year, degrees are three years. If I didn't claim...

But a tricky one! Alright, so from what I've heard, Centrelink's only willing to pay Youth Allowance for one degree. I can understand and appreciate that, but what if, for one of your years of study, you received no youth allowance, as you were not eligible for it? Thus, Centrelink would...

You could probably get a shitty job at ITP or H&R Block. Do you even do any taxation in tafe for accounting?

It's been a lovely run for me at Coles Groups. Started work at Kmart in year 10, on service for a year, and then worked in layby and general merchandise for about 2 or so years. After, I transferred to Brisbane to work at Coles (moved from the Gold Coast to Brisbane to study). Worked on service...

And what do you study? I study accounting, and am getting average grades. The future looks ever so bright for me in terms of employment prospects.

Lol at the dickheads whining about international students 'taking' jobs. Let me think how worse off our country would be if we didn't take all the foreign students we could get? Hurr fucking durr time, am I right?

Short answer: No (to getting 'any' accounting job) Longish answer: You'll probably be able to get a job, but don't expect anything exciting or exactly high-paying. Accounting is a diverse profession, and it can become quite complicated, with all the legislative and common law implications...

Fuck yeah, Youth Allowance here I come. Kmart and Coles, you were good to me. But I'm sick of all the bullshit I've put up with. Only 3 or so weeks left. I might stay to just work 1 day a week though, but since I won't be relying on Coles, if the shit hits the fan, I can just work out <3

I'll just show them my graduation certificate :skip:

It's from when you graduated from high school. For me that was in the middle of November, when did you graduate? In NSW/Vic you graduate earlier, don't you? But then again, in QLD we finish school a year earlier than you guys. If I was in the NSW/Vic system, I'd not be eligible to get youth...

Yeah, they're quite ambiguous with their wording, aren't they? Shitty thing is, even though we've earned enough money to get youth allowance, we have to wait the whole 18 months before we can start receiving payments. And I don't think we can even apply until a few weeks before 18 months.

Carrying on from my bitching before. My parents don't make lots of liquid revenue, it's only because of their rental properties (which is pretty much their long-term investment because they don't want superannuation) that I'm ineligible for youth allowance. Why can't Centrelink just put on...

Cool, that's me! But God damn, Centrelink staff (and their website) aren't clarifying shit for me. The closest I could find is this Nothing specifically about the 75% test, however, in the 'changes in April', it makes no note about changing the criteria for independence (except age). I...

It hasn't been abolished, it'll be abolished as of July 1. At least, I hope to God it is, otherwise I'm fucked because I earned that money before these changes came to effect, just I couldn't apply because I haven't been out of school for over 18 months. If they fuck me over that way, I'm...

Anyways, in May I'm going to start receiving youth allowance. I'm currently working to pay my way (receive no money from parents and have moved out). At the moment I'm fresh produce on part time hours, however, once I start getting youth allowance, I'm hoping to transfer to a shop closer to me...

In my shop, we have no forks or knives. Our TV is one of those stereo ones with a built in VCR player. Yep. Anyways, in May I'm going to start receiving youth allowance. I'm currently working to pay my way (receive no money from parents and have moved out). At the moment I'm fresh produce on...

I called them up and enquired into this. However they said that that it's only if they are in prison or something. However, I'm going to call them again, and tell them that my parents have not paid me one cent since I moved out (been nearly a year) and that they cannot afford to do so. I wonder...

No wonder why you haven't got a job yet...

I didn't have to bring any in, but we have heaps of international workers, so tonnes of people were told to bring them in. :skip:

So many people want to do things like this in Japan, and they are normally jobs that don't require too much skill, thus you get treated like shit. On another note, I'm going to Japan in 3 weeks ;D