FOR A brief period of time, life was terrific for a southeast Queensland mother of six: There was a honeymoon in Hawaii, family trips to Vanuatu and the US, and a new seven-bedroom house. But then the ...

A WOMAN who claimed more than $100,000 in disability payments to which she wasn’t entitled has so far paid back just $30 of what she owes. Cassandra Dawn Way, 57, appeared before the Townsville ...

A MAN who didn’t want to work for the dole and his sister-in-law have been found guilty of falsely claiming he was raising his nephew so he could get more in Centrelink benefits. Stephen Garry Devine, ...

And only a minority of the allegations prove correct. In 2005-06, Centrelink received 118,491 tip-offs from the public involving alleged overpayments of benefits. That number is up significantly on ...