Publications if you are ill, injured or have a disability

Listed below are publications you may find useful.

Main publication

• Are you ill, injured or do you have a disability? Booklet - a guide to your payment and service options if you are ill, injured or have a disability.

Brochures

• A Guide to Centrelink Concession Cards Booklet - provides information on who is eligible for a concession card as well as the range of concessions offered in each State or Territory.
• Office and Home Interviews Brochure - information about your rights and responsibilities when you participate in an interview with Centrelink.

Factsheets

• Australia's International Social Security Agreement Factsheets - provides information on agreements with individual countries for social security coverage.
• Carer Payment or Age Pension? Factsheet - provides information about Carer Payment and Age Pension and explains the similarities and differences between these two payments.
• Claiming Your Foreign Pension Factsheet - provides information on how Centrelink can help you claim a foreign pension.
• Disability Payment Rates Factsheet - a summary of the qualifications, payment rates and income/assets test for Disability Support Pension, Sickness Allowance, Carer Payment, Carer Allowance and Mobility Allowance.
• Financial Information Service Factsheets - series of factsheets containing information about specific financial matters.
• Market research and you Factsheet - provides information on why, how and when Centrelink undertakes market research.
• Questions and answers - Disability Support Pension Better and Fairer Assessments measure - provide community organisations with an overview of the changes and assist in answering questions around the DSP Better and Fairer Assessments measure.
• Reporting your Business Services earnings to Centrelink - provides information on the voluntary reporting of Business Services earnings by your Business Services employer.
• Social Security Treatment of Tasmanian RFA Private Forest Reserves Program Payments Factsheet - provides information about how these payments are treated for social security purposes.
• Urgent Payments Factsheet - provides information about how you may receive part of your payment early.
• Your Right to Privacy Factsheet - provides information about your privacy rights and who may access customer information.

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Other publications

• Centrelink Corporate Publications - publications containing information about Centrelink.
• Centrepay Publications - provides detailed information about Centrepay.
• Compensation Kit Booklet - provides information on compensation and how it affects your payments from Centrelink.
• Guide to Australian Government Payments Booklet - Centrelink payment rates booklet.
• Mobility Allowance - helpful information - provides information for customers about Mobility Allowance.

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Publications from other organisations

• Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs website - provides a range of brochures and factsheets.

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