We have information in different languages about Disaster Recovery Allowance
Disaster Recovery Allowance
Disaster assistance payments audio
For Centrelink payments and services, you can call our multilingual phone service.
You have until 25 November 2025 to make a claim for the following Local Government Areas (LGAs):
- Armidale
- Bellingen
- Central Coast (NSW)
- Cessnock
- Clarence Valley
- Coffs Harbour
- Dungog
- Kempsey
- Lake Macquarie
- Maitland
- Mid-Coast
- Muswellbrook
- Nambucca Valley
- Newcastle
- Port Macquarie-Hastings
- Port Stephens
- Singleton
- Upper Hunter
- Walcha.
To see emergency information about your LGA, you can enter your address into the New South Wales Government’s find your local council tool.