Most useful information for retraining

1. Employment income reporting
2. If you’re employed

How to report your income to Centrelink

You can report your employment income in different ways.

Veteran Payment affects your income support payment

Information to help you make a choice between Veteran Payment and an income support payment.

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. Help for myGov, online accounts and mobile apps
2. Centrelink online account help guides

Centrelink online account help - Manage where your payments are sent

Instructions on how to change where we pay you using your Centrelink online account.

Payments while outside Australia

To get your payment or concession card while outside Australia, you must continue to meet the qualification rules at all times.

1. Top payments
2. Financial Information Service

How to contact the Financial Information Service

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

Funeral bonds and prepaid funerals

Funeral costs you pay for in advance normally don’t count in your assets test for payments from us. There are some exceptions.

1. Youth Allowance for job seekers
2. How much you can get

Personal income test for Youth Allowance for job seekers

We use income tests to see if you’re eligible for a payment and work out how much you’ll get.

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.

Study loads for Austudy and Youth Allowance

Most people need to study full time to get Austudy or Youth Allowance. To work out if you’re a full time student you need to know your study load.