Carer Payment
A Services Australia payment if you give constant care to someone with disability or a medical condition, or an adult who’s frail aged.
Who can get it
To get this payment, you must:
- meet the residence rules
- care for someone who needs constant care, which stops you from working full time
- care for someone who’ll have these needs for at least 6 months
- be under the income and assets test limits.
Find out more about who can get it and how much you can get on the Services Australia website.
How to get it
Claim online
You'll need to link Centrelink to your myGov account, if you haven’t already.
If you don’t have a myGov account
Follow the steps to create a myGov account. After you’ve created one, you can link services to your account.
If you can’t claim online
Call the Disability, sickness and carers line on the Services Australia website.
Help in your language
You can call the multilingual phone service on the Services Australia website to speak with someone in your language.
Find information in more languages about Centrelink on the Services Australia website.
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Page last updated: 17 January 2024