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| Thread ID: 75337 | 2006-12-25 05:32:00 | is this a de facto relationship? | Ninjabear (2948) | PC World Chat |
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| 509507 | 2007-01-22 04:03:00 | When she told studylink about it studylink said we'll deduct it back but who knows if they will Studylink or MSD will deduct it off your future benefits (if any) to make the adjustments, if she is no longer receiving any thing from them, they will send her a bill to pay it off and this can be paid from the NZ Post branches. I think it can also be paid off in installments as well, if need be they access to debt collection agencies. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 509508 | 2007-01-22 04:15:00 | IMHO I see the issue of maximising benefits nothing wrong. At uni, they tell you what you are fully entitled to such as student loans and allowances. The pple make the policies and they make the rules for eligibility. Pple do it everyday. You bargain at the stores, you look at pricespy. You hunt for bargains, you go to Pak n' Save or use coupons or the One Card. You travel at offpeak times, or you travel with a airline that is not perhaps the $$ Air New Zealand. You look for scholarhships. If you wish to live at home or away from home you look at what the govt provides and then weigh out if you can afford to do so or not. You apply early and not late so you don't miss out in a loan/allowance payment. Obviously if one wants they can buy computers at Noel Leeming and smile or they can not apply for the allowance even if they are qualified. They can choose to take a student loan instead. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 509509 | 2007-01-22 04:20:00 | IMHO I see the issue of maximising benefits nothing wrong. At uni, they tell you what you are fully entitled to such as student loans and allowances. The pple make the policies and they make the rules for eligibility. Pple do it everyday. You bargain at the stores, you look at pricespy. You hunt for bargains, you go to Pak n' Save or use coupons or the One Card. You travel at offpeak times, or you travel with a airline that is not perhaps the $$ Air New Zealand. You look for scholarhships. If you wish to live at home or away from home you look at what the govt provides and then weigh out if you can afford to do so or not. You apply early and not late so you don't miss out in a loan/allowance payment. Obviously if one wants they can buy computers at Noel Leeming and smile or they can not apply for the allowance even if they are qualified. They can choose to take a student loan instead. Yea we did apply early problem is if you ask pak n save of a price of pears they tell you its $2.38 per KG .5 minutes later you ask another person he'll say $3 per KG and the the next person will say $2.40 per kg Im happy that government is providing us benefits however Im annoy that they don't have a set policy.Each person tells you a different story |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 509510 | 2007-01-22 04:25:00 | They do have a set policy. Prior to application. Depends on what you tell them and what info they have to go on with. Post application the forms are sent out and later they will be able to tell you what you qualify for "cast in iron" but if you choose change your living arrangements and finance your circumstance will change again and what you qualify for will also change. They should have a booklet for you, pamphlets and the website that you can read up on incl info re: eligibility, that was how it was at my time at uni. Edit. One thing they won't tell you is, I see this is your situation, if you do A B and C then you can get more money from us. They ask what your situation is right now and then they use this info and provide you what you qualify for. If you say, oh if I study a diff course or if I go to Auckland to study instead of Dunedin, how would it change. They will go via one situation and tell you what you get, they then go via a diff one and tell you for that what you get. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 509511 | 2007-01-22 04:33:00 | They did have a panthlet and website but it doesn't say anything about de facto relationship We didn't intend to want more money in the first place .We were being honest by telling them that it is a de facto but...as you can see things didn't went too well.Got given the wrong information |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 509512 | 2007-01-22 04:34:00 | Anyway.Will see what happens later on now.Just not happy with what studylink has done to us | Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 509513 | 2007-01-22 04:34:00 | Since you told them you are in a defacto relationship, they told you what you qualify for based on that piece of info. If you were not sure what defacto was you could of asked them for a definition and they would of clarified it. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 509514 | 2007-01-22 04:37:00 | Yes we were told we were de facto but another person at studylink said we weren't de facto | Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 509515 | 2007-01-22 04:42:00 | Be single, no woman troubles either :rolleyes: Doesn't make a diff. De facto is just a term. Just tell them this is me, I am living such, I am income as such, such and such .. If you been living together and it has come to this and this is what you get, now if you change your mind and move out it changes again. Just by changing the term does squat, the term defines your current situation, for you to honestly change the term you have to alter your arrangement. If you say I am not sure if I want to move in with her or not, it depends on what the govt defines it and stuff, then ok .... |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 509516 | 2007-01-22 21:46:00 | Pple do it everyday. You bargain at the stores, you look at pricespy. You hunt for bargains, you go to Pak n' Save or use coupons or the One Card. You travel at offpeak times, or you travel with a airline that is not perhaps the $$ Air New Zealand.The difference here is that these are all things in which you spend YOUR money on things you want. A benefit is where you spend OUR money, often with little or no oversight from the govt. The point here being that the money isn't yours, it belongs to us, the taxpayers. I don't see anything wrong with a benefit for those who truly need it, but I don't think you should be getting any more than you truly need to survive. I also view the student loan scheme as slightly different - as it is a loan and not a gift, it's your ass on the line if you abuse it, which is an incentive to act responsibly. You say you can't get work - what have you tried? SJS is an extremely good path to go down, as is physically turning up at places and asking if they have any vacancies. If you see a job advertised, you are more likely to be hired if you turn up in person as it shows that you are motivated. I would be extremely surprised if you have done all that and still do not have a job. |
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