Distance education payments offered through Centrelink, also known as Youth Allowance or Austudy, are a financial boost aimed at eligible students who are fully immersed in their studies at either a high school or a college level. These payments come in handy to help manage expenses like tuition fees, textbooks, and the whole shebang of living costs.
So, who’s in the running for these payments? Well, students need to tick a few boxes. They should be on the younger side, an Aussie citizen or a permanent resident, and they need to pass a test that checks how much they’ve got in their pocket.
Now, if you’re nodding your head like, “Yeah, I’m in that boat,” and you’re thinking of bagging these payments, you’ve got a couple of routes. You can hop online to the Centrelink website and do the digital dance there, or you can have a chat with one of the Centrelink folks who know the drill.