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A payment of A$6.00 per fortnight for those receiving certain Centrelink payments, to help cover the cost of prescription medicines. The amount covers the cost of one prescription per fortnight for a concession card holder eligible for the concessional rate of medicines (A$5.90 per script from 1 January 2013).
Austudy Payment is a Commonwealth Government of Australia income support payment for students above the age of 25 years of age, paid under the Social Security Act 1991. It commenced operation on the 1 July 1998. Students below the age of 25 years are paid Youth Allowance. Austudy is adjusted on January 1 in line with 12-month changes in ...
Centrelink logo until 2012. The Centrelink Master Program, or more commonly known as Centrelink, is a Services Australia master program [2] of the Australian Government.It delivers a range of government payments and services for retirees, the unemployed, families, carers, parents, people with disabilities, Indigenous Australians, students, apprentices and people from diverse cultural and ...
Services Australia, formerly the Department of Human Services and before that the Department of Social Security, is an executive agency of the Australian Government, responsible for delivering a range of welfare payments, health insurance payments, child support payments and other support services to eligible Australian citizens and permanent residents. [6]
On reaching age 65, or on ceasing employment after age 60 members have total access to their superannuation balance. In most cases this can be taken as a tax-free lump sum or a tax-free income stream. Decisions on when to retire are likely to be influenced by the government Age Pension which, as of July 2023, commences at age 67.
The New Payments Platform (NPP), operated by New Payments Platform Australia Ltd (NPPA) [1] is an industry-wide payments platform for Australia. It became accessible to the general public on 13 February 2018 [ 2 ] with the introduction of PayID, an addressing capability, and Osko , [ 3 ] the first NPP overlay service, operated by BPAY .
The Robodebt scheme was an unlawful [1] [2] method of automated debt assessment and recovery implemented in Australia under the Liberal-National Coalition governments of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, and Scott Morrison, and employed by the Australian government agency Services Australia as part of its Centrelink payment compliance program.
Medicare is the publicly funded universal health care insurance scheme in Australia operated by the nation's social security agency, Services Australia.The scheme either partially or fully covers the cost of most health care, with services being delivered by state and territory governments or private enterprises.