Proving your identity over the phone with Centrelink
How to prove who you are over the phone.
How to report your income to Centrelink
You can report your employment income in different ways.
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.
Paying tax on a Centrelink payment
You may have to pay income tax on your taxable Centrelink payments.
ABSTUDY for school children living at home
There’s ABSTUDY support available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students attending school and living at home.
How gifting can affect your payment
If you or your partner gift money, income or assets, we may assess it in your income and assets tests.
Financial investments
The value of your financial investments counts in the assets test and income test for payments from us.
How to prove your identity to Centrelink through myGov
How to prove who you are to Centrelink through myGov using the Centrelink identity verification linking option.
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.
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.