Most useful information for Growing up

Directors fees

Directors fees count towards your income test. They can affect your Centrelink payment.

1. Centrelink self service
2. Electronic messaging

How to manage electronic messaging

Your options and obligations for electronic messaging.

1. Centrepay
2. How to use it

Centrepay goods and services

If you get an eligible Centrelink payment, you can use Centrepay to pay for goods and services from registered businesses.

Paid Parental Leave counted as income

We treat Paid Parental Leave (PPL) as taxable income. This means Parental Leave Pay counts in your income test for payments from us.

1. How to manage your assessment
2. Changing your child’s care arrangements

Child support payments and care arrangements

If care arrangements change it may affect the child support payments you make or get.

1. Top payments
2. Child Dental Benefits Schedule

How to use the Child Dental Benefits Schedule

Find out how to get dental services using the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS).

Rural customers and primary producers

Some rural properties and farms have more than one title or larger blocks than residential properties. The asset test rules are different for these properties.

1. Top payments
2. ABSTUDY

ABSTUDY for school children living at home

There’s ABSTUDY support available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students attending school and living at home.

1. Energy Supplement
2. How much you can get

Payment rates for Energy Supplement on Special Benefit

If you get Special Benefit the Energy Supplement amount you get depends on your circumstances and the payment or services you get.

Employment income

This is pay you get for work you've done for an employer.