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Medical reviews when you get Carer Allowance

If you’re getting Carer Allowance, we may do a medical review of the person you care for from time to time.

Transfer Carer Payment and Carer Allowance from child to adult

You may be getting Carer Payment or Carer Allowance, or both payments. When a child in your care is turning 16, you can transfer your Carer Payment and or Carer Allowance from a child to an adult.

  1. Who can get it
  2. Getting a DVA payment

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 manage your allowance
  2. Reviews

Carer Allowance income review

To make sure you’re paid correctly, we may review your income.

Exemptions from the newly arrived resident's waiting period

After you arrive in Australia, there can be a waiting period to get some of our payments and concessions. Find out if you may not have to wait this period.

  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. How we work out your assessment
  2. How your income affects your child support

How we use adjusted taxable income

What you claim determines how we work out your adjusted taxable income.

  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.

Income from Commonwealth Prac Payment

If you get a payment from us you need to report any Commonwealth Prac Payments you get as income.

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Page last updated: 10 December 2021.
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