Payments & Services for People with Disabilities
Are you Someone who is Ill, Injured or has a Disability?
Centrelink entry point providing information about payments and services for individual people, including parents and guardians, self-employed people, separated or divorced people, job seekers, students, carers, migrants, seniors, people in crisis and people with disabilities.
Commonwealth Carelink Centres
Commonwealth Carelink Centres are information centres for older people, people with disabilities and those who provide care and services. Centres provide free and confidential information on community aged care, disability and other support services available locally, intrastate or anywhere within Australia.
Commonwealth Carelink Services Directory
Do you need to know about what community, residential aged care, disability and other support services are available in your area? This directory contains an extensive list of service providers - including the range of services they offer and their contact details.
Concession and Health Care Cards
This Centrelink page provides information about concession cards issued by Centrelink: Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card and Commonwealth Seniors Health Card. Includes links to further information about each card.
Disabilities
The Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs manages and funds a range of programs to support people with disabilities, including those with a vision impairment and families and carers.
Help to Stay at Home - Community Care
This section of the Department of Health and Ageing website contains information on community care. It includes information on community care services, home and community care and support for carers.
Home and Community Care
The Home and Community Care (HACC) Program is a central element of the Australian Government's aged care policy, providing community care services to frail aged and younger people with disabilities, and their carers.
Links to Useful Information for Individuals and Communities - Disabilities
Community.gov.au is a portal to information relevant to individuals and community organisations across Australia. On this part of the Community Portal you will find links to information and resources relating to a range of disabilities.
National Auslan Booking and Payment Service (NABS)
The National Auslan Interpreter Booking and Payment Service (NABS) is funded by the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. NABS is based at the corporate office of Wesley Mission Brisbane, in Brisbane, but it will provide services Australia-wide. NABS provides interpreters to Deaf and hard of hearing people who use sign language and would like an interpreter for private medical appointments. It is free of charge to Sign Language users and medical practitioners.
