ALMOST 80,000 people could lose their taxpayer-funded handouts each year after strict new laws, as one man was recorded breaching Centrelink rules 117 times — but only lost his welfare payments for ...

Letters sent out in July under the heading “Taskforce Integrity” warned welfare recipients against deliberately withholding or providing false information to dishonestly collect payments. Roughly ...

AUSTRALIAN Federal Police will today descend on Mount Druitt and St Mary’s in Sydney’s west in a major crackdown on welfare cheats with at least $100,000 in taxpayer-funded Centrelink payments ...

There is a small segment of the community who still think it is okay to cheat the system. The federal government has trawled through sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even eBay to uncover ...

According to figures reported in The Australian, 7006 jobseekers last year missed their Centrelink appointments and re-engaged at the very end of each fortnight, allowing their $579 Newstart payment ...

More than 100,000 Australians have dobbed in family, friends and neighbours for allegedly ripping off the Centrelink welfare system as the federal government calls in private debt collectors to claw ...

Welfare fraudsters will be caught out faster under a $1 billion revamp to the Centrelink online payments system. The federal government has started work on updating the 30-year-old IT system ...

A QUEENSLANDER who defrauded Centrelink of $800,000 is one of thousands of former dole recipients to be given 28 days to start repaying the Government in a new crackdown by Human Services Minister ...