Once we get your proof of enrolment, we'll pay you a $3,000 Tertiary Access Payment, if you're from an inner regional area. If you're from an outer regional or remote area, we'll pay you a $5,000 Tertiary Access Payment in 2 instalments. The first instalment will be $3,000 and the second instalment will be $2,000.
The Tertiary Access Payment is a payment of $3,000 or $5,000. How much you can get depends on where your family home is located. Complete the following steps to claim the Tertiary Access Payment from us.
If you stay enrolled in full time study, you can get a second instalment of $2,000. We'll pay you in either: September of the same year you started studying. March in the following year, if you started studying in the second half of the year.
The Cost of Living Payment is a $250 one-off payment to help with the cost of living.
Couples will get $22.50 per fortnight each, bumping the payment to $639.10. Indexation will bump assistance payments up by $5.60 a fortnight for singles without children, $6.58 for maximum rate recipients with one or two children and $7.42 for those with three or more children.
The Work Bonus income bank is useful for pensioners who wish to work, particularly those who undertake intermittent or occasional work. Note: from 1 December 2022 to 31 December 2023, a one-off, temporary credit of $4,000 applies to Work Bonus income bank balances.
If you're a pensioner currently receiving support through Centrelink, you may be eligible for extra help with bills and medicine costs through the Pension Supplement. This supplement is a combined payment of Pharmaceutical Allowance, Utilities Allowance, GST Supplement and Telephone Allowance.
You have $300 of Work Bonus available each fortnight, which can accrue up to the maximum amount. When your Work Bonus eligible income is less than $300 a fortnight, we'll reduce your income to zero.
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Advance Lump Sum $1000 – check how much your benefit would reduce each fortnight to see if you can manage it.
We offer loans ranging between $500 and $5000 for those already on Centrelink or Youth Allowance. However, please keep in mind that it's your responsibility to ensure that the amount of money you receive won't affect your benefits. Get more information on our loans for people who are unemployed.
The Carer Supplement is an annual payment of $600 which is attached to each Carer Allowance. The Supplement is paid in July each year.
have a Pensioner Concession Card, (including those issued by the Department of Veterans' Affairs) (DVA) have a Health Care Card (including Low Income Health Care Card) have a DVA Gold Card. have a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (including those issued by DVA)
On 1 February 2022, the Federal Government announced aged care workers would be eligible to receive a bonus payment of up to $800.
In the first week after this vaccination rate was reached, a $450 payment rate would apply for those who had lost eight or more hours of work (or a full day of their usual hours per week) except for those on income support who could receive a rate of $100.
These were extra payments paid as part of the coronavirus (COVID-19) stimulus. We've already paid most eligible people. We paid one-off payments of: $750 from March 2020 and July 2020.
Aussies on Centrelink will see a payment boost from the federal budget. Aussies who receive Centelink's JobSeeker will be seeing more cash in the bank, thanks to the federal budget. Around 1.1 million Aussies on JobSeeker who are looking for work are set to benefit from the $40-per-fortnight cash boost.
You can get the Work Bonus if both of these apply to you. You: are Age Pension age and over. get Age Pension, Carer Payment or Disability Support Pension.
Households will need to visit the comparison tool provided by Service NSW and will be eligible for the payment even if they don't switch plans. The program is set to run from July 1 to December 31, 2023. Aussies who compare providers now will still be eligible for the payment in July.
However, on 2 September 2022 the Prime Minister announced that Age Pensioners will be able to earn an additional $4,000 in the 2022–23 financial year before it affects their pension.
Budget 2022: $250 one-time cash bonus for Centrelink recipients.
Labor has said it will give $250, to be matched by another $250 from the federal government, to concession card holders, Family Tax Benefit recipients and self-funded retirees with a Commonwealth Seniors Health Card.
The government will provide $3.7 million in 2023–24 to extend the measure to provide age and veteran pensioners a once-off credit of $4,000 to their Work Bonus income bank and temporarily increase the maximum income bank until 31 December 2023.
The Government has provided two separate $750 payments to social security, veteran and other income support recipients and eligible concession card holders. Around half of those that benefit are pensioners. These payments will support households to manage the economic impact of the Coronavirus.
Full Age Pension income threshold increases by:
Singles threshold $204 per fortnight, increase is $14 per fortnight, $364 per annum. Couples threshold $360 per fortnight, increase is $24 per fortnight, $624 per annum.