Youth Allowance

Financial help if you’re 24 or younger and a student or Australian Apprentice, or 21 or younger and looking for work.

Eligibility basics

16 to 21 and looking for full time work, or
18 to 24 and studying full time, or
16 to 24 and doing a full time Australian Apprenticeship, or
16 to 17 and independent or needing to live away from home to study.

Read more about Youth Allowance for:

Students and apprentices

Job seekers

This information is a general guide to our payments and services from www.humanservices.gov.au. It is based on user selections from the ‘customise and print’ option. It may not include all of the information on this topic.

This information was printed on 20 February 2019 from https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/services/centrelink/youth-allowance

It is subject to the website disclaimer at https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/site-notices