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Centrelink online account help - Manage where your payments are sent

Instructions to use your Centrelink online account to change where we pay you.

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

Centrelink online account help - Update your banking details

Instructions on how to update your banking details, including cash, cheques, loans, savings, deeming accounts and term deposit accounts.

  1. Asset types
  2. Gifting

When gifting exceptions apply

We have some exceptions to how we assess gifting.

If you need to attend an assessment

There are things you’ll need to do if you need to attend an Employment Services Assessment (ESAt).

  1. Parenting Payment
  2. Who can get it

Waiting periods for Parenting Payment

You may have to wait before your Parenting Payment starts.

  1. Top payments
  2. Parenting Payment

How to manage your Parenting Payment

Your options for Parenting Payment.

Demerits and penalties for not meeting mutual obligation or participation requirements

Job seekers could get demerits and financial penalties for not meeting mutual obligation.

Exemptions to the newly arrived resident's waiting period

After you arrive in Australia, there can be a waiting period to get some of our payments and concessions. Find out if you may not have to wait this period.

  1. Assets test
  2. Asset types

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.

Seasonal work preclusion period

This applies if you or your partner finished seasonal, contract or intermittent work within 6 months of submitting your claim.

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