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Advance payment

If you get a Services Australia payment, you can sometimes apply to get part of your payment early.

Advance payments can help you manage your money. You get some money early and then pay it back over the next 13 fortnights. Services Australia will take the repayments out of the amount they would normally pay you. You don’t need to do anything to set up the repayments.

Who can get it

You can apply for an advance after getting one of these payments for at least 3 months:

  • Age Pension
  • Carer Payment
  • Disability Support Pension
  • Farm Household Allowance
  • JobSeeker Payment
  • Parenting Payment
  • Widow Allowance
  • Youth Allowance for job seekers.

You can apply for an advance at any time if you get one of these payments:

  • ABSTUDY Living Allowance
  • Austudy
  • Youth Allowance for students
  • Family Tax Benefit Part A
  • Mobility Allowance.

There are some other rules depending on which payment you get. Find out more about who can get an advance payment, and how much you can get, on the Services Australia website.

How to get it

Claim online
Sign in to myGov and start a claim

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 your regular payment line on the Services Australia website.

Help in your language

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

Centrelink will be closed on:

  • Wednesday 25 December 2024
  • Thursday 26 December 2024
  • Friday 27 December 2024
  • Wednesday 1 January 2025.

Find information in more languages about Centrelink on the Services Australia website.
Page last updated: 2 December 2024