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Veteran Payment affects your income support payment

Information to help you make a choice between Veteran Payment and an income support payment.

  1. How to keep your payment
  2. Reviews

Confirm or update your caring details for Carer Payment

If you get Carer Payment, we may send you a letter asking about your caring details and address. We’ll ask you to confirm or update these details.

  1. Continence Aids Payment Scheme
  2. How to apply

Providing more information for your Continence Aids Payment Scheme application

You may need to give us extra documents as part of your CAPS application.

  1. Continence Aids Payment Scheme
  2. Who can get it

Not meeting eligibility for the Continence Aids Payment Scheme

You may not access CAPS if you don’t meet eligibility requirements.

  1. Aged care calculation of your cost of care
  2. How to apply online

Nominate someone to deal with us if you get a DVA payment and help with aged care cost of care

If you get a Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) payment and you're living in an aged care home or get a Home Care Package, you can choose a nominee to deal with us for you.

  1. Aged care calculation of your cost of care
  2. Who should apply

You own your own home for an aged care calculation of your cost of care

If you own the home you live in and you’re moving into aged care, we need to know about it.

  1. Who can get it and how much you can get
  2. Eligible equipment

What are the alternative names for essential medical equipment

Sometimes eligible medical equipment for the Essential Medical Equipment Payment (EMEP) might have a different name.

  1. Essential Medical Equipment Payment
  2. Who can get it and how much you can get

Essential Medical Equipment Payment while travelling or living outside Australia

You must be in Australia to get the payment.

  1. Carer Allowance
  2. How to manage your allowance

Adjusted taxable income for Carer Allowance

We use your adjusted taxable income to work out if you can get Carer Allowance.

  1. Asset types
  2. Gifting

What gifts we include in income and assets tests

We may include your gift if you give away, sell or transfer it for less than its market value.

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