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Pensioner Education Supplement

Helps students with the ongoing costs of full-time or part-time study in a secondary or tertiary course.

Eligibility & payment rates

Eligibility for Pensioner Education Supplement

You may be eligible for Pensioner Education Supplement or ABSTUDY Pensioner Education Supplement if you receive certain payments.

Read more about eligibility

Payment rates for Pensioner Education Supplement

Payment rates of Pensioner Education Supplement and ABSTUDY Pensioner Education Supplement are effective from 20 March 2012.

Read more about payment rates

Residence requirements for the Pensioner Education Supplement

To be eligible for the Pensioner Education Supplement you must satisfy residence requirements. You must:

  • be an Australian resident
  • be physically present in Australia on the day you lodge your claim, and
  • continue to meet the residence requirements for as long as you get this payment

Newly arrived residents generally have a 104 week waiting period, with some exemptions.

Other benefits while receiving the Pensioner Education Supplement

If you qualify for the Pensioner Education Supplement, you may be entitled to other payments and services such as:

Payments & services

  • Carer Payment
  • Centrelink Online Services
  • Disability Support Pension
  • Newstart Allowance
  • Parenting Payment
  • Widow Allowance
  • Youth Allowance

Related subjects

  • Payments for carers
  • Payments for families
  • Payments for people living with illness, injury or disability
  • Payments for students and trainees
  • Retrenched or made redundant

Claiming

Claiming Pensioner Education Supplement

You should submit your claim for Pensioner Education Supplement as soon as possible so that we can pay you from the earliest possible date.

Read more about claiming

Managing your payment

Payments paid while outside Australia

There are rules about getting your payment when you leave Australia.

Read more about payments paid while outside Australia

Payments & services

  • Carer Payment
  • Centrelink Online Services
  • Disability Support Pension
  • Newstart Allowance
  • Parenting Payment
  • Widow Allowance
  • Youth Allowance

Related subjects

  • Payments for carers
  • Payments for families
  • Payments for people living with illness, injury or disability
  • Payments for students and trainees
  • Retrenched or made redundant

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