3.7.1.90 Supplementary benefits & assistance for SpB recipients

Other departmental benefits

SpB recipients MAY also qualify for the following benefits, if they meet the relevant qualification criteria:

• family tax benefit,
• rent assistance,
• pharmaceutical allowance,
• telephone allowance,
• remote area allowance,
• HCC or PCC,
• crisis payment,
• clean energy supplement,
• EdEP (if a non-residentially qualified sole parent), and
• pension supplement if over age pension age.

Other departmental benefits are not regarded as income under the SpB direct deduction income test.