Bludger!

[tyggerjai]

So. Apparently, I am indeed eligible for the dole right away - they won't start paying me for four weeks, but they will, apparently start paying me. I'd assumed I wouldn't be eligible until I'd burned through the cash, but apparently though that might reduce the payments, I am still eligible for something, and it'll probably supplement my income nicely. And beig turned down for jobs is actually going to be easy enough, with the whole "I'd like to start now ... and then go away for a month ...." thing.

Now, to ask them if I can still submit claim forms from Venice ...

[UPDATE] Bah. As I thought - if you have more than $2,500, they basically ask you to go away until you've burned through it. And tempting though it is to stick it under the bed and claim I spent it on icecream, really, I'd rather just get a job.

sol.
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Comments

[sly-girl.livejournal.com]

I now have a mental image of you with a pillow stuffed down your shirt and stains in your beard, trying to convince Centrelink that you bought and ate several thousand dollars worth of ice cream.

...

Maybe you could try to convince them you spent it on pork?

[longi.livejournal.com]

Now, to ask them if I can still submit claim forms from Venice ...

If you leave the country, they stop paying you. And, if you leave without telling them and they find out (which they will because they're linked with immigration and the ATO among other place), they'll breach you and possibly cut you off for 26 weeks.