Most useful information for managing your money

1. Top payments
2. Centrelink Compensation Recovery

When you get lump sum compensation

If you get lump sum compensation, it can affect income support payments you get from us.

1. Remote Area Allowance
2. How to manage your allowance

Avoid committing fraud

Do the right thing and avoid committing fraud by keeping your details with us up to date.

1. Top payments
2. Centrelink Compensation Recovery

How compensation affects payments

Compensation can affect your Centrelink payments. Some similar types of payments can affect you too.

1. Managing your money
2. Centrelink debts and overpayments

What happens when you’re overpaid by Centrelink

Understand what happens when you’re overpaid and what you need to do if you have a debt.

1. Work
2. Managing your money

Scams and identity theft

Protect yourself against scams. Learn what to do if you’re the victim of a scam or identity theft, including if your details are exposed in a data breach.

1. Active scams
2. Other Services Australia scams

Fake Services Australia social media profiles

Scammers are setting up fake social media profiles pretending to be us and other government agencies.

1. Active scams
2. myGov scams

myGov text message link scams

If you get a text message from myGov with a link to click on, it‘s a scam.

1. Active scams
2. Centrelink scams

Centrelink impersonation email scams

You might get an email claiming to be from Centrelink about urgently updating your details.

1. Managing your money
2. Most useful information

Robodebt refunds

People who paid money back towards an eligible robodebt got a refund of their repayments.

1. Active scams
2. Centrelink scams

Centrelink impersonation phone call scams

You might get a call claiming to be from Services Australia.