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Centrelink

Services Australia delivers Centrelink payments and services.

Vision and mission

Centrelink delivers social security payments and services to Australians at times of major change.

How Centrelink can help

Centrelink delivers payments for all of the following:

  • older Australians
  • job seekers
  • students and trainees
  • families
  • carers
  • parents
  • people with disability
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
  • visitors, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who are living in Australia
  • people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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Last reviewed: November 2024

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Concession and health care cards - Seeking medical help - Services Australia

Concession and health care cards can get you cheaper health services and medicines.

Read more on Centrelink website

Economic Support Payment - Services Australia

These were extra payments paid as part of the coronavirus (COVID-19) stimulus. We’ve already paid most eligible people.

Read more on Centrelink website

Get medical help and health care - Seeking medical help - Services Australia

Find out about Medicare and how to access health care services.

Read more on Centrelink website

Teenage years - Growing up - Services Australia

Find out how payments and services for you or your child change as they get older.

Read more on Centrelink website

How much Parenting Payment you can get - Parenting Payment - Services Australia

How much Parenting Payment you can get depends on your and your partner’s circumstances.

Read more on Centrelink website

COVID-19 vaccine claims scheme - Services Australia

You may be able to get financial support if you’ve experienced harm because of a COVID-19 vaccine or its administration.

Read more on Centrelink website

Starting primary school - School - Services Australia

Learn about payments and services that can support you when your child starts primary school.

Read more on Centrelink website

Individual Healthcare Identifiers - Services Australia

A number that identifies you for health care purposes.

Read more on Centrelink website

Children’s health care - Child health and safety - Services Australia

We cover some or all of your child’s health care costs.

Read more on Centrelink website

Before the birth of your baby - Having a baby - Services Australia

Having a baby is an exciting time. There’s a lot of information about payments and services that can help with the cost of raising a child.

Read more on Centrelink website

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