Eligibility for certain pension Advance Payments

You may be eligible for an Advance Payment if you already get one of these pensions:

• Age Pension
• Carer Payment
• Disability Support Pension
• Widow B Pension, and
• Wife Pension.

To qualify for an Advance Payment you usually need to have been getting one of these payments (or a combination of other Social Security payments) continuously for 3 months and not be repaying an advance you received more than 12 months ago and:

• are not having money taken out of your payment already (or may be recovered) to pay a debt to the Australian Government - for example, to Centrelink, and
• can afford to repay the Advance Payment out of your main payment for 6 months without suffering financial hardship, and
• be in Australia when you apply for the Advance Payment.

More information

• Advance Payment section