Are you looking for support because of unemployment, age, disability or another life event?
Commonwealth income support
Income support & pensions
Services Australia administers Centrelink payments such as JobSeeker, Age Pension and Disability Support Pension. Payment-specific residence, age, medical, income and assets rules can apply.
What this part of the system means
Income support & pensions
This area will bring together working-age income support, retirement income support and disability-related pensions. The key point is that Centrelink is the administrator for many payments, but there is no single eligibility test: each payment has its own purpose, qualification rules, means tests and rate structure.
Decision prompts
Questions to answer first
These do not determine eligibility. They help identify which payment, scheme or authority to check next.
Do residence or waiting-period rules apply?
Are income and assets tests relevant to this payment?
Is medical evidence, work capacity or another payment-specific test required?
Primary sources
Where this section will be grounded
Compass links back to the administering agency or official scheme. Placeholder content is deliberately kept separate from a formal entitlement decision.
Other parts of the Australian support system