Retirement or lifestyle village

If you’re in retirement living, you may be eligible for Rent Assistance under the retirement or lifestyle village rent type.

Retirement villages

Using the amount you paid when you entered the retirement village, we assess if you’re either a:

  • homeowner
  • non-homeowner.

If you’re assessed as a non-homeowner, you may get Rent Assistance. We base the assistance on your ongoing fees in the retirement village. If we assess you as a homeowner, you likely won’t be eligible for Rent Assistance.

Find out how we assess retirement villages as assets.

Lifestyle villages

You’ll usually be eligible for Rent Assistance if you live in a lifestyle village. These are assessed differently to a retirement village.

Rent Assistance is payable to eligible customers. Find out who can get it.

Page last updated: 14 July 2026.
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