Most useful information for Medicare

1. Help for myGov, online accounts and mobile apps
2. Medicare online help guides

Medicare online account help - Leave a Medicare card

Instructions on how to leave a Medicare card using your Medicare online account.

1. Low Income Health Care Card
2. How to manage your card

Renewing a Low Income Health Care Card

You need to renew your Low Income Health Care Card.

1. Low Income Health Care Card
2. Who can get a card

Income test for the Low Income Health Care Card

To get a Low Income Health Care Card your income must be under the limit.

1. When you spend a lot on PBS medicines
2. PBS Safety Net thresholds

How to reach the threshold sooner as a family

If you combine your family’s PBS amounts, you may reach the threshold sooner.

1. Low Income Health Care Card
2. Who can get a card

Benefits of a Low Income Health Care Card

You and your dependent child can get benefits if you have a Low Income Health Care Card.

1. Recently unemployed
2. Most useful information

Employment Separation Certificate form (SU001)

You can ask your previous employer to use this form to certify important employment information about you.

1. Moving to Australia
2. Most useful information

Request an Individual Healthcare Identifier or amend an Individual Healthcare Identifier record form (MS003)

Use this form to register for or amend your registration of an Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI).

1. Top payments
2. Health Care Card

How to manage your Health Care Card

Your options and obligations to hold a Health Care Card.

Proving your identity online for Centrelink

How to prove who you are to Centrelink online.

1. Top payments
2. Medicare Entitlement Statement

How to get a Medicare Entitlement Statement

To get a Medicare Entitlement Statement (MES) you need to apply from 1 July each year.