How compensation affects payments

Compensation payments

Compensation payments can affect payments you get from us. These include all the following:

You need to tell us if you or your partner make a claim for any of these types of compensation.

The following payments are not considered compensation but may affect your payments from us under the income and assets test:

victims of crime schemes, including criminal injury
death benefits
payments made under an income replacement policy attached to a superannuation policy
sickness and accident policy for sporting injuries
total permanent disability from your superannuation scheme
compensation for unlawful dismissal, sexual harassment or racial discrimination
disability pension from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

You can call us on your main payment line or ask a Financial Information Service Officer for more information about this.

Contact numbers available on this page.

Use this line if you have queries about Centrelink Compensation Recovery.

There are other ways you may want to contact us.

Some Centrelink payments are affected by compensation or similar payments from benefits or schemes.

You must try to claim any compensation you could get. If you don’t, it could affect your Centrelink payments.

If you or your partner claim, get or stop getting compensation or similar payments, you need to tell us.