Youth Allowance
Youth Allowance If you are thinking of applying for Youth Allowance or already receiving Youth Allowance, there’s good news for you. The Australian government is pledging a bigger budget for Youth...
View ArticleCalculating Your Centrelink Pay Rates
Calculating Your Centrelink Pay Rates As a student, it could be difficult to juggle university and work to make ends meet. Depending on your particular circumstances, you may qualify for Centrelink...
View ArticleCentrelink Rent Assistance
If your family lives in the same city as where your university is located, you can often choose to stay to minimize your financial burden. However, if you’re from the country or your preferred...
View ArticleCentrelink Eligability: Liquid Assets test
The liquid-assets Waiting test is a test Centrelink applies on new applicants to determine if they have too much money that is easily accessible. Essentially if the applicant has too much money they...
View ArticleCentrelink and Receiving Gift’s of Money
When someone’s parents give them money to help them through University how does this affect the money they receive each fortnight? This is actually a quite tough question and after having spoken to...
View ArticleCentelink Benefits what are students entitled to?
Students who are eligible can receive one or a few different types of benefit payments from Centrelink. They may not be much, but they certainly take the edge off struggling through Uni and give you a...
View ArticleFailing the Independence Test
Many students find that they are not eligible to receive Youth Allowance because their Parents earn too much money. Essentially what has happened to cause this is Centrelink has what’s called a...
View Article2013-14 Australian Federal Budget: What this means to Students
Recently there was announcements on the news about the budget for the next financial year, this impacts students in a couple of different ways. Overall I think students got the rough end of the stick,...
View ArticleHow much Rent Assistance will I get?
You may be thinking that the amount of rent assistance you will be entitled too is a straight forward thing to ask. Rent assistance is actually determined through a test which is applied to the level...
View ArticleHow to become eligible for Youth Allowance or Austudy?
There is a few different criteria that determines whether you are eligable for either Austudy or Youth Allowance. These criteria are applied to make sure that Australian’s which apply for them do...
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