Most useful information for apprenticeship

1. Education
2. Apprenticeship

Starting an apprenticeship or traineeship

If you’re thinking about starting an apprenticeship or traineeship, there’s support available to guide you.

1. Top payments
2. ABSTUDY

ABSTUDY for children living away from home to go to school

There’s ABSTUDY support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who need to live away from home for school.

1. Growing up
2. Most useful information

Unreasonable to live at home statement by young person form (SY015)

Use this form if you're getting or have claimed Youth Allowance or ABSTUDY, and you're applying as an independent person under the unreasonable to live at home guidelines.

Income maintenance period

This waiting period may apply if you or your partner have stopped work and got leave or redundancy payments.

1. Managing your money
2. Most useful information

Start or end group payment arrangement form (SS270)

Use this form to start or end your payment going to an organisation approved for group payment arrangements, such as an aged care home, hospital or hostel.

Overdrawn bank account

You can get help to access your money if you have an overdrawn bank account.

1. Youth Allowance for students and Australian Apprentices
2. Who can get it

Meet some of our students - student profiles

We have 7 common student profiles. See if any of these match your situation.

Newly arrived resident's waiting period

If you’ve recently arrived as a resident in Australia, you may have to wait to get payments or concession cards.

1. Asset types
2. Gifting

How much you can gift

Your payment may be affected if you gift more than the value of the gifting free area each year.

1. Centrepay
2. What your rights and obligations are

Using your personal details for Centrepay

When you set up a Centrepay deduction, you also consent to sharing your payment and deduction details between the business and us.