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Centrelink

Services Australia delivers Centrelink payments and services.

Vision and mission

Centrelink delivers social security payments and services to Australians at times of major change.

How Centrelink can help

Centrelink delivers payments for all of the following:

  • older Australians
  • job seekers
  • students and trainees
  • families
  • carers
  • parents
  • people with disability
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
  • visitors, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who are living in Australia
  • people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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This information was originally published on healthdirect - Centrelink.

Last reviewed: June 2022

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