Hundreds of thousands of pensioners will lose their benefits! If they have unpaid fines or evade the law. Starting next March, new benefit applicants will be required to submit their own crime-free reports, the Daily Mail reported.
This is a new step in the new Budget to tighten welfare spending.
Under the new welfare policy, those who fail to pay court fines or break the law will be suspended if they are found, and if they have children, their benefits will be halved.
The Government also plans to gradually deduct the non-paid fine from the benefits distributed every two weeks.
The new regulation, according to the express mail, will affect the recipients of 2,306 welfare benefits in Queensland, with a total of a fine of $190 million. These fines include speeding and the violation of public transport rules.
"this measure will help to honour arrest warrants and help people with warrants to avoid imprisonment," said federal social services minister Mr. (Dan Tehan).
Prior to this, more than 70% of welfare recipients deceiving the Social Welfare Bureau (Centrelink) were sentenced to prison, but in fact they were not in prison. Over the past five years, 2012 frauds have been jailed. But only 527 people served their sentences in prison, and the rest were released because they were granted a release order. Of the 857 people sentenced for welfare fraud in the past two years, only 247 are serving their sentences.
About 500000 people have reported that they believe someone has deceived the welfare system over the past five years.
Starting in March next year, applications for new benefits will first need to be filed with police inspection records. Their benefits will be frozen until they turn themselves in to the police, once the police find that there are unfulfilled arrest warrants in their records.
A child's non-serving sentence may receive half of the benefits to encourage them to cooperate with the police and, if the arrest warrant is cancelled within one month, they will be able to recover the full benefits. The fine to be deducted from the benefits will be transferred to the state and district governments.