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The Centrelink Master Program, or more commonly known as Centrelink, is a Services Australia master program [2] of the Australian Government. It delivers a range of government payments and services for retirees, the unemployed, families, carers, parents, people with disabilities, Indigenous Australians, students, apprentices and people from ...
Social security, in Australia, refers to a system of social welfare payments provided by Australian Government to eligible Australian citizens, permanent residents, and limited international visitors. These payments are almost always administered by Centrelink, a program of Services Australia. In Australia, most payments are means tested .
Services Australia, formerly the Department of Human Services and before that the Department of Social Security, is an executive agency of the Australian Government, responsible for delivering a range of welfare payments, health insurance payments, child support payments and other support services to eligible Australian citizens and permanent residents.
Formation. 26 April 1939. ( 1939-04-26) Website. ministers .dss .gov .au /bill-shorten. The Minister for Government Services is the minister in the Government of Australia responsible for Services Australia. The current minister since 1 June 2022 is the Hon Bill Shorten MP, who also serves as Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
A Centrelink office in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. Services Australia, which administers Centrelink services, is one of the largest APS agencies. The Australian Public Service formally comprises all Australian Government departments and agencies where staff members are or can be employed under the Public Service Act 1999.
Superannuation in Australia or " super " is a savings system for workplace pensions in retirement. It involves money earned by an employee being placed into an investment fund to be made legally available to fund members upon retirement. Employers make compulsory payments to these funds at a proportion of their employee's wages.
A tax file number ( TFN) is a unique identifier issued by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to each taxpaying entity—an individual, company, superannuation fund, partnership, or trust. [1] Not all individuals have a TFN, and a business has both a TFN and an Australian Business Number (ABN). [2] [1] If a business earns income as part of ...
Health Care Card. The Australian Health Care Card is a card issued by the Australian Government which evidences the entitlement of the cardholder to concessions, such as the cost of some prescription medicines, medical services, and other government concessions. Eligibility for the card is determined by the eligibility (and registration) for ...
Website. dss.gov.au. The Department of Social Security (the DSS) was a government department in Australia, which administered the Social Security system between 1972 and 1998. [3] The department was one of several new departments established by the Whitlam government and was managed by the Minister for Social Security.
Free to NSW seniors, concession card holders and Centrelink carers. The NSW Photo Card is a voluntary photo card issued by the Service NSW in New South Wales, Australia. It is credit-card sized and bears the cardholder’s photo, signature, name, address and date of birth. The NSW Photo Card replaced the 'proof of age' card on 14 December 2005.