Setting up online accounts for Centrelink
To do your business with us, create a myGov account and link it to Centrelink.
- Seeking medical help
- Get health care
Concession and health care cards
Concession and health care cards can get you cheaper health services and medicines.
- Top payments
- Rent Assistance
How to manage your Rent Assistance
There are things you need to tell us if you get Rent Assistance.
- Parenting Payment
- 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.
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.
- Relationship changes
- Most useful information
Relationship details - Separated under one roof form (SS293)
Use this form if you’re separated but live under the same roof as your ex-partner. This is so we can assess whether to pay you as a single person or as a member of a couple.
- Getting aged care services
- Most useful information
Private Trust form (MOD PT)
Use this form if in the last 5 years, you or your partner have been involved with or have transferred funds or assets to a private trust that has not been vested.
- Retirement years
- Most useful information
Income and assets form (SA369)
Use this form if you’re claiming a payment and need to tell us about your income and assets.
- Managing your money
- Most useful information
Income support payment
An income support payment is a regular payment that helps you with living costs.
- Rent Assistance
- How to manage your payment
Change of circumstances when you get Rent Assistance
We need to know about changes that could affect or stop your Rent Assistance.