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Centrelink online account help - Request to transfer carer payments for a child to an adult

How to request to transfer your Carer Payment and Carer Allowance payments from a child to an adult care receiver.

  1. Help for myGov, online accounts and mobile apps
  2. Centrelink online account help guides

Centrelink online account help - Withdraw a nominee request

Instructions on how to withdraw a nominee request made in your Centrelink online account.

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Dec 2025

Tell us if you or your care receiver goes overseas

If you get Carer Payment or Carer Allowance, you need to tell us if you or the person you care for leave Australia.

  1. Death of a loved one
  2. Most useful information

Advice of death form (SA116)

Use these forms to advise us of the death of an adult or child. We’ll use these details to update records with Medicare, Centrelink and Child Support.

  1. Centrelink self service
  2. Electronic messaging

Who can use electronic messaging

You don’t need to have an online account to use electronic messaging.

  1. Top payments
  2. Carer Supplement

Who can get Carer Supplement

You must be getting a certain payment for 1 July to get Carer Supplement for that year.

  1. Top payments
  2. Carer Supplement

How to get Carer Supplement

You don’t need to apply for Carer Supplement. If you’re eligible, we’ll pay it straight into your bank account.

  1. Top payments
  2. Carer Adjustment Payment

Who can get Carer Adjustment Payment

To get this payment there are rules you need to meet.

  1. Top payments
  2. Carer Adjustment Payment

How to claim Carer Adjustment Payment

You need to complete a form to claim Carer Adjustment Payment.

  1. Top payments
  2. Child Disability Assistance Payment

Who can get Child Disability Assistance Payment

To get this payment, you need to be getting Carer Allowance for a child younger than 16 for a period that includes 1 July.

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