Most useful information

1. Caring for someone
2. 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.

1. Seeking medical help
2. Get health care

Concession and health care cards

Concession and health care cards can get you cheaper health services and medicines.

1. Growing up
2. Teenage years

What happens when your child turns 15

When your child turns 15, there are some changes for your and your child’s Medicare cards.

1. Crisis Payment
2. Crisis Payment for humanitarian entrants

How much Crisis Payment for Humanitarian Entrants you can get

You can only get one Crisis Payment for humanitarian entrants.

Proving your identity over the phone with Centrelink

How to prove who you are over the phone.

1. Top payments
2. Education Entry Payment

How to claim Education Entry Payment

What you may need to do to claim Education Entry Payment (EdEP).

Paying tax on a Centrelink payment

You may have to pay income tax on your taxable Centrelink payments.

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.

1. Top payments
2. Disability Support Pension

Who can get Disability Support Pension

You need to meet both non-medical and medical rules to get Disability Support Pension (DSP).

1. Ageing
2. Caring for elderly

Caring for someone with dementia

Resources to help you care for someone with dementia.