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A payment of A$6.00 per fortnight for those receiving certain Centrelink payments, to help cover the cost of prescription medicines. The amount covers the cost of one prescription per fortnight for a concession card holder eligible for the concessional rate of medicines (A$5.90 per script from 1 January 2013).
Centrelink logo until 2012. The Centrelink Master Program, or more commonly known as Centrelink, is a Services Australia master program [2] of the Australian Government.It delivers a range of government payments and services for retirees, the unemployed, families, carers, parents, people with disabilities, Indigenous Australians, students, apprentices and people from diverse cultural and ...
Services Australia, formerly the Department of Human Services and before that the Department of Social Security, is an executive agency of the Australian Government, responsible for delivering a range of welfare payments, health insurance payments, child support payments and other support services to eligible Australian citizens and permanent residents. [6]
Benefits for all claimants will see an annual increase of 1.7 per cent in April as they uprate in line with inflation. The DWP has announced no changes to the Christmas bonus.
This year, Christmas falls on a weekend, meaning Monday, Dec. 26 will be a federal holiday. Federal benefits, including social security and social security supplemental income, are not paid on...
The New Payments Platform (NPP), operated by New Payments Platform Australia Ltd (NPPA) [1] is an industry-wide payments platform for Australia. It became accessible to the general public on 13 February 2018 [ 2 ] with the introduction of PayID, an addressing capability, and Osko , [ 3 ] the first NPP overlay service, operated by BPAY .
Job seekers may be required by the government to take part in Work for the Dole if they are aged 18 or 19 years, recently completed Year 12, getting the full rate of Youth Allowance, and have been getting payments for three months or more, or aged 18 to 59 years, getting the full rate of Youth Allowance or JobSeeker Payment, and have been ...
The 2024 indexation rate is 3.5% and is applied to most general practitioner, allied health and medical imaging services from 1 July 2024. [ 63 ] The AMA continues to petitions yearly for increases to MBS payments for services provided by its members, taking the stance that the MBS payments are decreasing in real terms due to annual inflation ...