Monday, February 07, 2011

I'm Getting Old

Sometime next week I turn 65 years of age and become eligible for the pension. You have to put in a 'claim' to get the pension here. So I am putting in my 'claim'. The biggest mistake I have made recently has been to allow my passport to lapse. If I still had my passport all would be fine.

The document to prove who I am for my passport is called Schedule Two. It s like your Birth Certificate or "Extract" of Birth. So I was going to use my Certificate Two to prove who I was for my Pension Claim. This isn't good enough! A Current Passport is good enough and a Certificate Two is good enough to get a Passport but a Schedule Two isn't good enough to get the pension!

I think we will eventually get there though. I hope to have an 'original' Birth Certificate in about 10 days!

Did you know it took about 5 minutes to deal with an inquiry at Centrelink in Caloundra today. This means if you have 8 people in front of you in the Enquiry Queue, you will be seen in about 40 minutes. I had this happen to me twice! I spent over an hour queued up today!

The humidity here has been incredible the last few days. Recently the humidity reading in Maroochydore was 97%. Even running the air con all yesterday only saw the humidity drop to 65%. However the cool change (seen here in the photo left) rolled in about 8 am this morning .... just as I was finishing my bike ride. We have had a much cooler day today but it remains a bit sticky. Rain is forecast for tomorrow and that should wash all the humidity away.

1 comment:

Lou Ann said...

At least in dry West Texas we don't have such high humidity. Dry heat is easier to endure. I am listening to the wind from the north as a new arctic front is blowing in. Snow should begin around midnight with winds up to 35 mph, so we will have beautiful drifts again this time.