Phone us
Call us for information about payments and services for Medicare, Centrelink, or Child Support.
We’ll close on Tuesday 26 January 2021 for Australia Day. Read more.
Centrelink phone numbers
ABSTUDY
Use this line if you get or are claiming ABSTUDY.
Read more about ABSTUDY.
Australian Victim of Terrorism Overseas Hotline
Use this line to discuss your special circumstances as an Australian victim of overseas terrorism.
Read more about the Australian Victim of Terrorism Overseas Payment.
International call charges apply.
BasicsCard Balance Enquiry Line
Use this line to check your BasicsCard balance at any time.
BasicsCard General Enquiry Line
Use this line for BasicsCards general enquiries or to report your lost or stolen BasicsCard.
Read more about:
Cashless Debit Card Hotline
Use this line for support with your Cashless Debit Card.
Read more about Cashless Debit Cards.
Centrelink Australian Apprenticeships Line
Use this line if you need help with payments and services for Australian Apprentices.
Read more about payments and services for Australian Apprentices.
Centrelink Compensation Recovery
Use this line if you have queries relating to Centrelink Compensation Recovery.
Read more about Centrelink Compensation Recovery.
Centrelink Debt Recovery Line
Use this line to discuss repaying an existing Centrelink debt.
You may have put your repayments on hold during the debt pause in response to COVID-19. If you have, we’ll keep them on hold until February 2021.
If you continued making repayments but your situation has changed, you can call us to update or temporarily stop your arrangement.
If you identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian you can call the Centrelink Indigenous Debt recovery Line.
Read about Centrelink debt and overpayment.
Centrelink Employment Services Line
Use this line if you need help with payments for job seekers, Assurance of Support, or to talk with our social workers.
Read more about:
- JobSeeker Payment - 22 years of age and over
- Special Benefit and Employment Services Providers
- Assurance of Support for visa applicants
- Crisis Payment
- Special Benefit
- Social work services.
Centrelink Families Line
Use this line if you need help with family payments, such as Family Tax Benefit, Child Care Subsidy or Parental Leave Pay.
Read more about:
Advise parental income
If you have a child on Youth Allowance or ABSTUDY and we’ve asked for your income details, you can advise us online. Read more about how to give us your income details.
Centrelink Indigenous Call Centre
Use this line if you’re an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian and need help with our payments and services.
Centrelink Indigenous Debt Recovery Line
Use this line if you’re an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian and need help repaying a Centrelink debt.
Read more about owing money for a Centrelink debt.
Centrelink - International free call numbers
Use one of our free call numbers if you’re outside Australia and need help with your Centrelink payment.
Includes the provinces of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Shandong and Henan.
Use this number if either:
- you’re calling from a country not listed above
- the international numbers listed are not available.
Calls to this number are not free. Calls from mobile phones may cost more.
Centrelink International Services Line
Use this line for help with an Australian pension while you're overseas or for help claiming a pension from another country if you live in Australia.
Read more about our International Services.
If you’re outside Australia either:
- call one of our overseas phone numbers
- write, email or fax us.
Centrelink Multilingual Phone Service
Use this line to talk with a skilled bilingual Centrelink service officer.
There is also information in your language about our payments and services.
Centrelink Older Australians Line
Use this line if you’re an older Australian and need help with your Age Pension or another service.
Read more about:
Centrelink Phone Self Service Line
Use this line to manage your Centrelink business yourself.
You can:
- check payment information, such as past and future payments
- update your family income estimate
- complete your Rent Assistance review
- apply for an advance payment
- hear your Working Credit or Income Bank balance
- ask for a mailed copy of documents.
When calling you will need a voiceprint. You can create one when you call. You'll need your CRN or CAN handy. Read more about creating a voiceprint.
Centrelink Reporting Line
Use this line to report your employment income or tell us if you've met your mutual obligation requirements.
Before you can use this line you’ll need to create a voiceprint. Once you’ve done this you can:
- report your employment income
- tell us if you've met your mutual obligation requirements in your Job Plan.
Centrelink Assistance for Isolated Children Line
Use this line if you’re a parent or carer of children who can't go to a local government school because of geographical isolation, disability or special needs.
Read more about the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme.
Disability, Sickness and Carers Line
Use this line if you need help with your Disability Support Pension, Mobility Allowance, Carer Payment or Carer Allowance.
Read more about:
Emergency Information Line
Use this line for help with claiming a disaster recovery payment, including the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment.
Read more about support for people directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic lock-down and natural disasters.
Farmer Assistance Hotline
Use this line if you need help with the Farm Household Allowance.
Read more about the Farm Household Allowance.
MH17 Family Support Hotline
Use this line for help with the MH17 Family Support Package.
Read more about the MH17 Family Support Package.
If you are outside Australia, call +61 2 8566 5659
International call charges apply.
Services Australia Customer Compliance Line
Use this line when you’re completing a compliance review.
Read more about the Compliance Program.
Services Australia Foreign Income Line
Use this line for information about foreign exchange rates.
Read more about foreign exchange rates.
Services Australia Customer Compliance
Use this line if you need to talk to us about an income review.
Read more about the Compliance Program.
Youth and Students Line
Use this line for help with payments for students, trainees and job seekers under 22.
Read more about:
Advise parental income
If you’re on a student payment and we’ve asked for your parents’ income details, they can advise us online. Read more about how to give us income details.
Medicare phone numbers
Aged Care Line
Use this line if you need information about aged care services and fee assessments.
Read more about getting help with aged care.
Australian Immunisation Register
Use this line if you need help with the Australian Immunisation Register.
Read more about the Australian Immunisation Register.
Australian Organ Donor Register
Use this line to register your decision to be an organ or tissue donor.
Continence Aids Payment Line
Use this line if you need help with the Continence Aids Payment Scheme.
Read more about the Continence Aids Payment Scheme.
Disaster Health Care Assistance Scheme Enquiry Line
Use this line if you've been a victim of terrorism or a natural disaster and need help with out of pocket health costs.
Read more about the Disaster Health Care Assistance Scheme.
Healthcare Identifiers Service
Use this line to contact the Healthcare Identifiers Service.
Read more about the Healthcare Identifiers Service.
Indigenous Access Line
Use this line if you're an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian and need help with a Medicare service or payment.
Medicare Compensation Recovery Team
Use this line to talk with the Medicare Compensation Recovery team.
Medicare Debt Recovery
Use this line if you have a Medicare debt.
Medicare Entitlement Statement (MES)
Use this line if you need help getting your Medicare Entitlement Statement.
Read more about the Medicare Entitlement Statement (MES) and claiming the Medicare levy exemption.
If you're outside Australia, call +61 1300 300 271
International call charges apply.
Medicare - International Calling
Use this line if you're outside Australia and need help with a Medicare service or payment.
Medicare program
Use this line if you need help with a claim, ordering a new card or have a Medicare general enquiry.
Medicare Telephone claims
Use this line if you want to make a Medicare claim and live in a remote area with limited internet access.
PBS Service
Use this line if you need help with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Read more about the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
When calling select:
- option 1 for concession and Medicare entitlement enquires
- option 2 for payment, PBS stationery and general enquires.
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme - taking or sending medicine overseas
Use this line if you need help managing your PBS medicine overseas.
Read more about taking or sending PBS medicine overseas.
Child Support phone numbers
Child Support Enquiry Line
Use this line if you have a question about child support or need to report a change in your circumstances.
Read more about:
- applying for child support
- reporting changes in circumstances
- support for Child Support online accounts and Express Plus Child Support mobile app.
Child Support Government EasyPay Service
Use this line to make child support payments using Visa or Mastercard.
Child Support Info Service
Use this line for information about child support payments. This is an automated service.
Child Support - International calling
Use this line if you’re outside Australia and need to contact Child Support.
International call charges apply.
International call charges apply.
Overseas Cases Team
Use this line for help with a child support payment, if a child or parent lives overseas.
Read more about child support when parents and children live outside Australia.
Services Australia general phone numbers
National Relay Service
Use this line if you have a hearing or speech impairment and need to talk to us about Centrelink, Child Support or Medicare services or payments.
Read more about the National Relay Service.
Online Services Support Hotline
Use this line if you need help with your Services Australia online account, Express Plus mobile app or myGov account.
- Monday to Friday 7 am to 10 pm
- Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5 pm
When calling select:
- option 1 for myGov
- option 2 for linking codes for myGov and Centrelink
- option 3 for Centrelink
- option 4 for Medicare.
Scams and Identity Theft Help Desk
Use this line if you need help with a scam or to report identity theft.
Services Australia Feedback and Complaints Line
Use this line to submit a complaint, give a compliment or make a suggestion to improve our Centrelink, Child Support or Medicare services.
Read more about how to provide feedback, suggestions or make a complaint.
When calling select:
- option 1 for Centrelink
- option 2 for Child Support
- option 3 for Medicare.
Services Australia Fraud Tip-off Line
Use this line if you suspect someone may be committing fraud against Centrelink, Medicare or Child Support.
Read more about reporting fraud.
The line will be closed from 24 December 2020 to 3 January 2021.
Line is closed on South Australian public holidays.
Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National)
Use this line to talk to someone in your language about Child Support and Medicare services.
Read more about the TIS National Service.
Page last updated: 4 January 2021
This information was printed 17 December 2020 from https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/contact-us/phone-us. It may not include all of the relevant information on this topic. Please consider any relevant site notices at https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/site-notices when using this material.