You get an income support payment

When you applied for an income support payment, you may have either:

• given us or the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA) your financial details to work out how much you get
• not given us or DVA your financial details because we didn’t need them.

If we have your financial details

We have your financial details if you get certain Centrelink income support payments. These include the following:

• Age Pension
• Disability Support Pension
• Carer Payment, not including Carer Allowance
• Special Benefit
• Farm Household Allowance
• Widow Allowance.

We have your financial details if you get certain DVA income support payments. These include the following:

• Service Pension
• Income Support Supplement
• Veterans Payment.

If we don’t have your financial details

We don’t have your financial details if you get certain income support payments. These include the following:

• Age Pension (Blind)
• Disability Support Pension (Blind)
• War Widow(er)s Pension
• Disability Compensation Payment paid by DVA (not including income support supplement)
• Income Support Pension (Blind) paid by DVA.

There may be other payments where you didn’t give us your financial details. If your Centrelink online account is linked to myGov, sign in now to check.

Sign in to myGov

You can also check by:

• calling the Aged Care line
• calling the DVA general enquiries line.

Read more about who should apply.