Most useful information for managing your money

Access your Income Management and BasicsCard account

You can access the money in your Income Management account many ways.

1. Centrelink payment summary
2. What’s on it

Payments that don’t show on your payment summary

Your payment summary won’t show some taxable payments you get from us. But if you get any, you'll need to report them in your tax return.

1. Active scams
2. Medicare scams

Replacement Medicare card scams

Scammers are pretending to be from Medicare and myGov.

Manage the money you get from your payment

We’ve got tips and tools to help you with budgeting, borrowing and credit, and managing debt.

1. Active scams
2. Centrelink scams

Centrelink impersonation phone call scams

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

1. Managing your money
2. Centrelink debts and overpayments

How to avoid an overpayment

What you should do to avoid being overpaid your Centrelink payment and what we do to help.

1. Centrelink debts and overpayments
2. Reviews for compliance program

Bank interest income reviews for the compliance program

We check your bank account information is up to date. We do this to check we paid you the right payment and amount in the past.

1. Compliance program
2. Information about Robodebt

Robodebt class action

Information about the robodebt class action, also known as the Income Compliance class action.

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

Centrelink online account help - Manage your advance payments

Instructions on how to repay or adjust your advance payments using your Centrelink online account.

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.