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Financial support

Search the wide range of available financial support services to find the support that meets your needs. For payment and support options not listed here please visit Services Australia.

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Resources and support

Job seeker

Financial help if you’re between 22 and Age Pension age and looking for work, or are sick or injured and can’t do your usual work or study for a short time.

Youth allowance for job seekers

Financial help if you’re 21 or younger and looking for work, or temporarily unable to work.

Youth allowance for students and Australian apprentices

Youth Allowance for students and Australian Apprentices Text: Financial help if you’re 24 or younger and a student or Australian Apprentice.

Austudy

Financial help if you’re 25 or older and studying or an Australian Apprentice.

Payments and support for indigenous Australians

Information on a range of payments and support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Mobility allowance

A payment to help with travel costs for work, study or looking for work if you have a disability, illness or injury that means you can’t use public transport.

Parenting payment

An income support payment if you are a young child’s main carer or a job seeker who is the main carer of young children.

Child care subsidy

Assistance to help you with the cost of child care.

Carer payment

An income support payment if you give constant care to someone who has a severe disability, illness, or an adult who is frail aged

Relocation assistance to take up a job

A payment to assist eligible participants to relocate to take up an offer of employment.

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