Is Centrelink payments taxable?
If you get these Centrelink payments
- ABSTUDY – Living Allowance for students and Australian Apprentices if you’re 16 years or older
- Age Pension
- Austudy
- Bereavement Allowance
- Carer Payment – if you or the care receiver is of Age Pension age
- JobSeeker Payment
- Parenting Payment
- Partner Allowance
- Special Benefit
- Widow Allowance
- Youth Allowance – if you’re 16 years or older.
- Parental Leave Pay from Services Australia
- Dad and Partner Pay.
Sometimes you’ll get additional payments included with your main taxable Centrelink payment like add on payments include:
- Additional Assistance, regular
- Transitional Basic Pension Supplement
- Basic Pension Supplement
- Bereavement lump sum above the tax exempt amount
- Coronavirus Supplement, a temporary payment due to COVID-19
- Community Development Programme
- Partner Bereavement Payment above the tax exempt amount
- Living Allowance, Term or School Boarder
- National Work Experience Programme
- PaTH Internship Incentive
- School Fees Allowance Group 2 or Board
- Work for the Dole
- Youth Disability Supplement when paid with Youth Allowance and ABSTUDY.
The answer is Yes. These Centrelink payments are taxable.
However if you get:
Disaster Recovery Allowance
Ex-gratia Disaster Recovery Allowance.
It may not taxable.
Not all emergency events are taxable. Please check with us using the form or contact method below to see if it’s taxable.
There are amounts that you do not pay tax.
You might have received amounts that you do not need to include as income on your tax return.
There are three different categories:
- exempt income
- non-assessable non-exempt income
- some other amounts that are not taxable and do not affect any calculation on your tax return.