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Annual parental income reassessment

If you’re dependent and get Youth Allowance or ABSTUDY, we may need your parents’ or guardians’ income details each year.

Residence rules for Youth Allowance

To be eligible for Youth Allowance you must meet the residence rules.

  1. Who can get it
  2. Rent and accommodation types for Rent Assistance

Retirement village or lifestyle village rent type for rent assistance

If you’re in retirement living, you may be eligible for Rent Assistance under the retirement or lifestyle village rent type.

  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. Top payments
  2. Financial Information Service

How to contact the Financial Information Service

We have Financial Information Service (FIS) Officers to help you.

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.

  1. Parenting Payment
  2. Who can get it

Income and assets tests for Parenting Payment

The amount of Parenting Payment you can get depends on your income and assets as well as your partner’s, if you have one.

  1. Electronic messaging
  2. Who can use it

Terms and conditions for electronic messaging

If you give us your mobile number or email address, you may get electronic messages from us.

  1. What FIS information you can watch online
  2. Job seekers

Centrelink payments FIS video

Watch this video about how a redundancy affects your Centrelink payment.

  1. Recently unemployed
  2. Most useful information

Seasonal, Contract and Intermittent Work Details form (SU496)

Use this form to tell us about any seasonal, contract or intermittent work you or your partner has done in the 6 months prior to claiming an income support payment.

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