Carer Allowance

A supplementary payment if you give daily care to someone with disability, a medical condition or who is frail aged.

This is a Services Australia payment.

Who can get it

To get this payment, you must:

meet the residence rules
provide daily care and attention to someone who meets the payment rules for a person getting care
with your partner, have a combined adjusted taxable income that is below the threshold.

Find out more about who can get it and how much you can get on the Services Australia website.

You'll need to link Centrelink to your myGov account, if you haven’t already.

Follow the steps to create a myGov account. After you’ve created one, you can link services to your account.

Call the Disability, sickness and carers line on the Services Australia website.

You can call the Centrelink multilingual phone service on 131 202 to speak with someone in your language.

Find information in your language on the Services Australia website.

Page last updated: 7 May 2025