Mobility Allowance

This helps with travel costs for work, study, training or looking for work if you have disability, illness or injury.

Mobility Allowance is a payment from Services Australia.

Who can get it

To get this you must:

be 16 years or older
meet the residence rules
be unable to use public transport without a lot of help
have a disability, illness, or injury
need to travel for paid or voluntary work, study, training, or to look for work.

You can’t get this allowance if you have either:

funded support from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
a car from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs under their Vehicle Assistance Scheme or Motor Vehicle Compensation Scheme.

Find out 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.

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

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Page last updated: 2 December 2024