Superpower: Confound Bureaucracy

[nano_moose]

I think I rolled a one on my bureaucracy check.

See, after a long and ridiculous battle extending from the month of January to today, I appeared to have finally extracted my youth allowance. The back pay - by now enough to make my student-brain's jaw drop - was supposed to come through yesterday.

It did not.

The reason?

It was too much. It had to be resubmitted and broken up into smaller payments.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY BROKEN CENTRELINK.

This has officially wrapped around from annoying to completely hilarious.

Comments

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaa!

Maybe you actually rolled decently and it's Centrelink that rolled a one.

What's youth allowance? I googled it and found a website about it, but all it said was that it was to help assist people. And, er, I didn't feel like poking through all the links to find out more. It is okay if you want to kick me for being a lazy Internet jerk.

[nano_moose]

Someone rolled a critical fumble here. So many things have gone wrong with this claim that I can't list them - it got to the point where I opened a letter from Centrelink, stared at it and said, "So, by this point they're just fucking with me, right?" This was after we discovered they'd been sending letters to an address we haven't lived at for thirteen years, and I think no longer exists.

Well, 'cause I'm under twenty-five, living away from home and studying full-time, I have the right to claim an allowance from the gub'ment to support me while I'm too busy to find work. Basically, I give them a bunch of forms and they send me money every two weeks, and in exchange I keep attending my course. Getting it is just as annoying as you'd expect getting money from a government institution would be.