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  2. Social security in Australia - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Centrelink - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Department of Social Security (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    Released in May 1995, Developing a Framework for Benchmarks of Adequacy for Social Security Payments: Policy Discussion Paper No. 6 was the department's first attempt to assess conceptual and methodological issues in assessing the adequacy of social security payments. [26] The report resulted in the Budget Standards Project.

  5. January 2025 payment dates for benefits and pensions as DWP ...

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    The DWP has also confirmed that a consultation will be launched in Spring 2025 on planned reforms to sickness and disability benefits. Minister Liz Kendall says the changes will be designed “to ...

  6. Services Australia - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Disability pension - Wikipedia

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    Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which is a new benefit for people of working age (between 18 and state pension age), who need help with personal care and/or mobility due to physical or mental disability. PIP will continue to be paid to claimants after they reach state pension age.

  8. Cashless Welfare Card - Wikipedia

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    The Cashless Welfare Card, also known as the Indue Card, Healthy Welfare Card or Cashless Debit Card, is an Australian debit card, trialled by the Australian Government from 2016 onwards, which quarantines income for people on certain income support payments [1] to "encourage socially responsible behaviour" [2] by not allowing the owner to purchase alcohol, gamble or withdraw cash.

  9. Disability benefits - Wikipedia

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    Quebec Pension Plan Disability Benefits are financial payments provided to individuals in Quebec who are unable to work due to a severe and prolonged disability and have contributed sufficiently to the QPP. Similar to CPP Disability Benefits, QPP is designed to offer income support specifically for residents of Quebec, acknowledging their ...