Howdy - can you elaborate on why you have only received 2K in 3.5 years? I suspect from your post it's because you settled on land in late 2011, and construction didn't complete until somewhere @ March 2013? If I'm in the ballpark, that would mean you received a pro rata'd portion of NRAS for @ 2 -3 months of the 2012/13 NRAS year ( which runs from May 1 2012 -April 30,2013 ) and are still waiting on your full 2013/14 incentive of $10,350. ?
So just to be fair- if Im about right, you're only missing 1 years incentive ( last years) , not 3.5 years. You weren't entitled to more than a pro rata amount in 12/13 - which you received in full - and your 14/15 isn't due yet
I'm hearing the same as you - RTO's are being issued quite soon. Amazing what this new Govt ( see Kevin Andrews - he's the man that created this issue ) has managed to do. Completely cocked up the 2013/14 NRAS payments by forcing every consortium to go back and re-do all the rental valuations so that the dates matched up precisely with the NRAS activation date on the brand new, whiz bang NRAS portal. It's been accepted practice since 08/09 that a 91 day ( 13 week) "buffer" was allowed. The concept being, rather than waiting to get rental vals done ( which consortiums require so they can set market rent, then NRAS rent - which tenancy managers need before they can start advertising for tenants) on the same day as activation, consortiums were always allowed to get the valuations done up to 13 weeks in advance, to provide lead time for tenancy managers, so that you and I didnt have empty properties for several weeks after settlement. Common sense, yeah? .Not to Mr Andrews, who decided to insist the absolute letter of the law be followed - but only for 2013/14. In November 2014 he also input a "fix" (to a previously unbroken system ) which now formally allows the previous practice to be used once again.
In other words, it is, from THIS CURRENT NRAS YEAR ( 2013/14) it will once again be perfectly OK for consortiums to get valuations done up to 91 days before activation and the Department will allow payment on the basis of this being compliant . And of course, for all years prior to 2012/13, where the 13 week rule was accepted and incentives paid out - even though Mr Andrews insists those payments were technically not meant to be paid, there was no review or audit. They chose to make a fuss about 2012/13 - causing massive delays, and after all that inconvenience we will simply be going back to doing things the way they have always been done forever more.