- Child health and safety
- Wellbeing
Support for foster carers and other non-parent carers
We support foster carers, grandparents, kinship carers and informal carers who provide ongoing care for a child.
- Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme
- What payment you can get and how much
Payment rates of Assistance for Isolated Children
The amount of Assistance for Isolated Children you get depends on the student's living arrangements during the school year and number of eligible children in your family.
- Housing
- Most useful information
Medicare Compensation Recovery Third party authority form (MO021)
Use this form to give us permission to release your compensation information and to give permission to a third party to sign relevant documentation on your behalf.
- Top payments
- Social work services
How our social work services can help
We can help if you need to turn to someone for support.
- Higher education
- Most useful information
ABSTUDY and Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) - Explanation or formal review of decision form (SY054)
Use this form to ask for an explanation of a decision about your claim for ABSTUDY or AIC. You can also use this form to ask for a formal review of your ABSTUDY or AIC decision.
- Top payments
- Australian Immunisation Register
What the Australian Immunisation Register is
The Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) is a national register that records vaccines given to all people in Australia.
- Top payments
- 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.
Payments while outside Australia
To get your payment or concession card while outside Australia, you must continue to meet the qualification rules at all times.
- Top payments
- Child Dental Benefits Schedule
How to claim the Child Dental Benefits Schedule
How to claim dental services covered by the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS).
- Top payments
- Child Dental Benefits Schedule
What’s covered by the Child Dental Benefits Schedule
Find out what child dental services we cover and how much we cover.