- Aged care calculation of your cost of care
- If you’re in financial hardship
Financial hardship assistance eligibility for aged care cost of care
Not everyone can get financial hardship assistance to help with aged care costs. You will need to meet eligibility requirements to have your claim assessed.
Asset types
Assets are property or items you or your partner own in full or part, or have an interest in. They can affect your payment.
- Continence Aids Payment Scheme
- How to manage your payment
Change of circumstances when you get the continence aids payment
It’s important to tell us about changes to your circumstances that may affect your Continence Aids Payment Scheme payment.
Overdrawn bank account
You can get help to access your money if you have an overdrawn bank account.
- Getting aged care services
- Most useful information
Aged care carer or close relative assessment form (SA483)
Use this form to give us your details if you’re a carer or close relative of someone moving into an aged care home.
Income
Most types of income count in your income test. We use this and your assets test to assess if you can get a payment, and to calculate your rate of payment.
Access to information
Providing you a number of ways to access documents and the information we have.
- Non-medical rules
- Income and assets tests
Income test for Disability Support Payment
Your income can reduce how much we pay you. We use the pension income test to assess Disability Support Pension (DSP).
- Managing your money
- Most useful information
Cancel Nominee Arrangement form (SS532)
Use this form to tell us that you, as an authorised person or organisation, want to cancel a nominee arrangement.
Setting up online accounts for Centrelink
To do your business with us, create a myGov account and link it to Centrelink.