Income from tax-free Government pensions and benefits
Income from tax-free pensions and benefits that you or your partner receive, through Centrelink or Veterans' Affairs must be included in your adjusted taxable income. These include:
- Centrelink Disability Support Pension paid to a person who is not old enough to get the Age Pension
- Carer payment where both the carer and the person being cared for are not old enough to get the Age Pension
- Wife Pension paid where both the person (and partner if applicable) are not old enough to get the Age Pension
- Department of Veterans' Affairs
- Invalidity Service Pension where the recipient is not old enough to get the Age Pension
- Disability Pension, War Widow's and War Widower's Pension
- Partner Service Pension where both partners are under the Age Pension age and the veteran receives an Invalidity Service Pension, or the veteran has died and was getting an Invalidity Service Pension at the time of death.
- Bereavement Payment, Pharmaceutical Allowance, Carers Allowance, Rent Assistance, Remote Area Allowance and Language, Literacy and Numeracy Supplement.
- Family Tax Benefit Part A, Family Tax Benefit Part B, Child Care Benefit, Baby Bonus and Maternity Immunisation Allowance.
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