Public holiday reporting and payment dates

Your reporting and payment dates may change when we close for national public holidays. We may pay you early.

We have information in different languages about Public holiday reporting and payment dates

For Centrelink payments and services, you can call our multilingual phone service.

Call the Centrelink Indigenous Call Centre to speak to us about Centrelink payments and services for free.

Office and call centre closures

Your reporting and payment dates may change when our service centres and most call centres close for these national public holidays:

  • Australia Day
  • Easter
  • Anzac Day
  • Christmas
  • New Year.

To help you plan ahead, we share the changes to reporting and payment dates in the lead up to national public holidays.

Using self service to report during holiday closures

You can use your Centrelink online account through myGov to do any of the following:

If you don’t have one, you can create a myGov account.

You can also use our Express Plus mobile apps and phone self service.

You can still report your income to us when we’re closed. However if you do this on a national public holiday, we’ll pay you after the national public holiday.

Page last updated: 13 February 2025.
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