How much you can gift
Your payment may be affected if you gift more than the value of the gifting free area each year.
What the Student Start up Loan is
The Student Start-up Loan is a voluntary $1,349 loan for eligible students who get Youth Allowance, Austudy or ABSTUDY Living Allowance.
Proving your identity in person for a Centrelink payment
How to prove who you are in person at a service centre.
Unreasonable to live at home statement by young person form (SY015)
Use this form if you're getting or have claimed Youth Allowance or ABSTUDY, and you're applying as an independent person under the unreasonable to live at home guidelines.
Employment Separation Certificate form (SU001)
You can ask your previous employer to use this form to certify important employment information about you.
Who can get Assistance for Isolated Children
Your child must home school, do distance education or board away from home for an approved reason to get Assistance for Isolated Children . Isolation rules also apply.
Assets test for allowances
We use the assets test to help us work out if you can be paid an allowance and how much you'll get.
Deeming
Deeming rules are used to work out income from your financial assets. We add this to your other income and apply the income test to determine your payment rate.
Advance payment
You may get part of your income support payment or Family Tax Benefit (Part A) early. This is an advance payment. You pay it back later out of your payments from us.
Starting secondary school
Find out how we can support you when your child moves to secondary school.