Going to keep this short, and expecting "a long time" as the answer.
I'm a full-time student. I work a bit in tutor cash money that's off the radar***. Currently I get ~$290 a fortnight to live at my parents' home. I want to move out soon, and Centrelink gives you a boost in your youth allowance and also supplements your rent. The allowance goes up to ~$445 a fortnight + rent supplement. This sounds great to me and would be enough to pay for rent, utilities and food for me.
Unfortunately most share houses or shared flats are about $300~400/fortnight where I live in sydney at the absolute minimum, so if i don't get the boosted youth allowance quickly I will probably start burning through my savings. I have enough to savings to live comfortably for at least a year but it would be nice to minimise how long i burn through it.
Question is: How long would it take to update details for this and get the adjusted payment? For convenience's sake, let's say I moved in today. I'm looking for people who have done this adjustment.
***EDIT: I wasn't declaring it because it was well below the cutoff limit, and I've only been doing it for a few weeks. I'll start declaring it, probably best to do the right thing!
