- Parental Leave Pay
- What can affect your payments
Effects of Parental Leave Pay on your existing payments and entitlements
Parental Leave Pay is part of your taxable income. It can affect your tax obligations and some payments and services.
- What can affect your payments
- Travel outside Australia
When and how to tell us about your travel if you get Parental Leave Pay
When you get Parental Leave Pay, you may need to tell us if you’re leaving Australia.
- Centrelink Compensation Recovery
- When you get periodic compensation
Payments and services it affects for Centrelink compensation recovery
If you or your partner get periodic compensation, it may affect income support payments and services you get from us. It may also affect other payments or cards.
- Centrelink Compensation Recovery
- How compensation affects payments
Tell us about compensation
If you or your partner claim, get or stop getting compensation or similar payments, you need to tell us.
- Centrelink Compensation Recovery
- When you get lump sum compensation
Preclusion periods for Centrelink compensation recovery
If you get lump sum compensation, you won’t be able to get income support payments for a certain time. It may also affect other payments or cards you get from us.
- When you get lump sum compensation
- Preclusion periods
How we calculate preclusion periods for Centrelink compensation recovery
Preclusion periods due to lump sum compensation payments usually start from the date of your injury.
- When you get lump sum compensation
- Preclusion periods
When you’re in financial hardship for Centrelink compensation recovery
There is help available if you’re in financial hardship during your preclusion period.
- Centrelink Compensation Recovery
- When you get lump sum compensation
Repayments due to lump sum compensation
When you get a compensation lump sum, you may need to repay us a charge for your income support payments.
- Centrelink Compensation Recovery
- When you get periodic compensation
Repayments due to periodic compensation
If you get a back payment of periodic compensation, we may have overpaid you. If so, you’ll need to pay us back.
- Living with disability
- Most useful information
Customer in psychiatric confinement form (SA379)
Use this form to provide information if you are in psychiatric confinement to help us assess your eligibility for Centrelink payments.