Job seekers

Financial help if you’re between 22 and Age Pension age and looking for work. It’s also for when you’re sick or injured and can’t do your usual work or study for a short time.

Financial help if you’re 21 or younger and looking for work, or temporarily unable to work.

The main income support payment while you’re a young child’s main carer. This payment is also for job seekers who are main carers of young children.

Financial help if you’re looking for work. There are also payments if you’re sick or injured and can’t do your usual work or study.

JobSeeker Payment started on 20 March 2020, and some payments stopped or closed to new claims. We have information about how these changes may affect you.

If you’ve lost your job and got a redundancy or termination payment, you may be able to get help.

Help while you look for work.

We provide financial support and help to people with disability, illness or injury. This support can help you study or find and keep a job.

We can help if you're an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian looking for work. We can also help if you want to study or train to find a job.

We will soon start refunding money to people who made repayments to eligible income compliance debts.

It has your taxable and some non-taxable payments from us for the financial year. You might need it for your tax return.

If you’re getting a taxable payment from us you may need us to take tax out of your payment.

We explain what mutual obligation requirements are and what you need to do.

It might be hard to manage your money, but we’ve got some great advice.

We support people affected by family and domestic violence by providing information, resources and referrals.