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Income Management for the Northern Territory Emergency Response

On 21 June 2007 the then Prime Minister, John Howard, and the then Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, announced national emergency measures to protect Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory from abuse and give them a better, safer future. A key element of this announcement was the introduction of Income Management.

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How does Income Management for the Northern Territory Emergency response work?

Income Management is when half to all of a customer's Income Support or Family Assistance payments are directed to ensure priority needs of individuals and their families are met. Centrelink makes deductions from income managed funds to pay third parties for things such as food, rent, utilities and school nutrition programs.

Income Management only takes effect in prescribed communities (including town camps and outstations) within the Northern Territory. It will be rolled out on a community by community basis. It applies to those customers who received, or were claiming, a payment in a prescribed community as at 21 June 2007. Income Management will still apply to a customer even if they have since left the community or if they leave after it takes effect.

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Payments that are affected by Income Management for the Northern Territory Emergency Response

For the payments listed below, half of the payment amount will be managed by Centrelink:

  • Age Pension
  • Disability Support Pension
  • Wife Pension
  • Carer Payment
  • Parenting Payment Single/Parenting Payment Partnered
  • Bereavement Allowance
  • Widow B Pension
  • Mature Age Allowance/Mature Age Partner Allowance
  • Widow Allowance
  • Newstart Allowance
  • Youth Allowance
  • Austudy Payment
  • Sickness Allowance
  • Special Benefit
  • Partner Allowance
  • Family Tax Benefit
  • Carer Allowance
  • Double Orphans Pension
  • Mobility Allowance
  • Pensioner Education Supplement
  • Telephone Allowance
  • Assistance for Isolated Children payments paid to parents for children at a Homelands Learning Centre
  • ABSTUDY, if it includes Living Allowance
  • Northern Territory CDEP Transition Payment
  • Language, Literacy and Numeracy Supplement
  • Work for the Dole Supplement
  • Bereavement Payment
  • Utilities Allowance, and
  • Rent Allowance, Remote Area Allowance and Pharmaceutical Allowance.

For the payments listed below, all of the payment amount will be managed by Centrelink:

  • all advance payments
  • Family Tax Benefit arrears, including bonuses and end of financial year payments
  • Baby Bonus, and
  • Maternity Immunisation Allowance.

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More information

To find out more about Income Management in the Northern Territory:

  • telephone the Centrelink Indigenous Call Centre on 13 6380.

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