International bank account form (AUS178)
Use this form to tell us your bank account details if you can get your Centrelink payment outside Australia.
Select the correct form
Bank account details form
You can get paid by direct deposit into a bank account in the following countries and regions. The form will tell you the currency your payment will be in.
Download and complete this form in one of the following languages:
Bank account details – Australia form
Download and complete the Bank account details – Australia form to get paid into an Australian bank account in Australian Dollars. This is for while you are outside Australia or in one of these countries or regions:
- Kiribati
- Nauru
- Tuvalu.
Bank account details – New Zealand form
Download and complete the Bank account details - New Zealand form to get paid into a bank account in New Zealand Dollars. This is if you’re in one of these countries or regions:
- Cook Islands
- New Zealand
- Niue
- Pitcairn Island
- Tokelau.
Wire payment via a USA bank form
Download and complete the Wire payment via a USA bank form to get paid into a bank account in US Dollars (USD). You need to have a bank account that accepts USD. This form is also available in Spanish. This is if you’re in one of the following countries or regions:
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- American Samoa
- Argentina
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Cambodia
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Falkland Islands
- Gibraltar
- Guam
- Iceland
- Kosovo
- Liberia
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Mariana Islands
- Marshall Islands, Republic of the
- Montenegro
- Myanmar
- Palau
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Saint Helena
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Serbia
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Tajikistan
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe.
Local currency wire payment form
Download and complete the Local currency wire payment form to get paid into a bank account in the local currency. You must make sure your bank can accept a wire transfer payment. This form is also available in Spanish. This is if you’re in one of the following countries or regions:
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas, The
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- BruneiDarussalam
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros Islands
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Congo, Republic of the
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Faeroe Islands
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Korea, Republic of
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Martinique
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nepal
- New Caledonia
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Qatar
- Reunion
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- South Georgia and Sandwich Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- US Virgin Islands
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Zambia.
Submit your form
Post your form to:
Centrelink International ServicesPO Box 7809
Canberra BC ACT 2610
Australia
Countries with payment restrictions
There are restrictions to delivering payments to some countries. We may not be able to pay you if you’re in one of these countries:
- Cuba
- Iran
- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - known as North Korea
- Sudan
- Syria.
Please contact International Services for more information.
If you have a disability or impairment and use assistive technology, you may not be able to access our forms. If you can’t, please use self service, request someone to deal with us on your behalf, or contact us. We can help you access, complete and submit them.
Page last updated: 8 September 2020
This information was printed 25 February 2021 from https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/forms/aus178. 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.