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1. Income and assets tests
2. Income

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.

Ordinary waiting period

You may have to wait for a week before your payment starts. We will let you know when you claim if this applies to you.

1. Top payments
2. Carer Payment

Who can get Carer Payment

To get Carer Payment, both you and the person you provide care for need to be eligible.

Access to information

Providing you a number of ways to access documents and the information we have.

1. Non-medical rules
2. 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).

1. Centrelink self service
2. Centrelink phone self service

What are the Centrelink phone self service options

There are 2 options for phone self service.

1. Natural disaster
2. Most useful information

Crisis and other help

We can help if you’re in severe financial hardship, recovering from a disaster, or need special assistance.

1. Living with disability
2. Most useful information

Consent to disclose medical information form (SA472)

Use this form to confirm that you consent to your treating health providers disclosing relevant information about your disability or medical conditions to us.

While you wait for a Centrelink claim outcome

There’s support while you wait to find out about your Centrelink claim outcome.

1. Centrelink self service
2. Centrelink payment summary

How to get your Centrelink payment summary

You can use a self service option to get your Centrelink payment summary.