Emergency and special payments at tax time

Published: 24 June 2025

Some payments are taxable but won’t show on your Centrelink payment summary and won’t be pre-filled in your tax return.

You can check payments you got in your Centrelink online account through myGov.

If you got New Zealand Disaster Recovery Allowance, you’ll need to manually add it to your tax return. If you got Disaster Recovery Allowance, this will pre-fill in your tax return.

You don’t need to include Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment or New Zealand Disaster Recovery Payment in your tax return.

Find out more about payments that don’t show on your Centrelink payment summary.

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Page last updated: 24 June 2025.
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