Most useful information

Getting a Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) payment

Find out if you or your partner getting a Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) payment could affect your eligibility for a payment from us.

1. Living arrangements
2. Going overseas

While you’re overseas and outside Australia

What your obligations are while you’re overseas. Staying safe and getting help while you travel.

1. How to manage your payment
2. Travel outside Australia

When and how to tell us about overseas travel if you get Age Pension

When you get Age Pension, you may need to tell us if you’re leaving Australia.

1. Child Care Subsidy
2. How much you can get

Examples to help you understand your Child Care Subsidy

Understand how we work out your Child Care Subsidy rate and hours of subsidised child care.

1. Assets test for Farm Household Allowance
2. Asset types

Financial investments

The value of your financial investments counts in the assets test and income test for payments from us.

1. Parental Leave Pay
2. How to claim

Information you’ll need to provide to claim Parental Leave Pay

Information you’ll need to provide to claim Parental Leave Pay.

Checking your enhanced Income Management account balance

You can check your enhanced Income Management account balance in different ways.

1. Higher education
2. Most useful information

Payments and support for Indigenous Australians

We have a range of payments and support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Real estate income

This is lease or rent money you get from a property you own. It counts in your income test.

1. How to manage your payment
2. Mutual obligation requirements

Pause of requirements

Sometimes there may be a pause of your mutual obligation or participation requirements.