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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 ...
The department's delivery of payments and services functions was taken over by Centrelink in 1997. [6] The creation of Centrelink meant significant changes to DSS, with the department shrinking in size to approximately 700 staff who were tasked with policy formulation and advisory functions. [7]
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 Cashless Welfare Card, also known as the Indue Card, Healthy Welfare Card or Cashless Debit Card, is an Australian debit card, trialled by the Australian Government from 2016 onwards, which quarantines income for people on certain income support payments [1] to "encourage socially responsible behaviour" [2] by not allowing the owner to purchase alcohol, gamble or withdraw cash.
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]
In Australia, the system of child benefit payments, once termed child endowment [3] and currently called Family Tax Benefit, is income tested and linked to the Australian Income tax system. It can be claimed as fortnightly payments or as an annual lump sum. It may be payable for dependant children from birth up to the age of 24.
$5 if obtained with a drivers licence or $14 for person holding NSW driving license or $55 for person without driving license for a 5 year term, alternatively if you are 21 years or older you can purchase a 10 year photo ID card for $98 or free for concession card holders. Free to NSW seniors, concession card holders and Centrelink carers.