- Ageing
- Getting aged care services
Understanding aged care costs to get aged care services
If you’ve started your journey with My Aged Care, we can tell you how much you can expect to contribute towards your aged care costs.
- Who can get it
- Rent and accommodation types for Rent Assistance
Private housing rent type for Rent Assistance
If you pay rent to live in a house someone else owns, you may be eligible for Rent Assistance under the private housing rent type.
- Help for myGov, online accounts and mobile apps
- myGov online help guides
myGov help - Link Centrelink to myGov using a linking code
Instructions on how to link Centrelink to your myGov account if you have a linking code.
- How to manage your payment
- Travel outside Australia
When you leave Australia if you get Age Pension
Your Age Pension may change when you leave Australia depending on your situation.
Assets test for allowances
We use the assets test to help us work out if you can be paid an allowance and how much you'll get.
- Ageing
- Caring for elderly
Caring for someone with dementia
Resources to help you care for someone with dementia.
Deeming
Deeming rules are used to work out income from your financial assets. We add this to your other income and apply the income test to determine your payment rate.
- Caring for someone
- Most useful information
Carer Payment and Carer Allowance - Medical Report for a child under 16 years form (SA431)
Use this form as part of the assessment of eligibility for Carer Payment, Carer Allowance or Special Disability Trust beneficiary status.
Supporting documents for your Centrelink claim
When you claim a payment or service, we’ll ask you for some documents to support your claim.
- Medicare online account
- How to get help
Accessibility for Medicare online account
Our online account services must be accessible and designed to meet the needs of everyone.