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11.7.2.10 Locations that are declared VIM areas

Declared VIM areas

A person may volunteer for income management if his or her usual place of residence is in a declared VIM area.

The following are declared VIM areas:

State/territory Income managed area
Northern Territory

Whole of the Northern Territory
South Australia
  • Greater Adelaide
  • Playford
  • The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands (as defined by the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 (SA))
New South Wales

Bankstown
Queensland
  • Rockhampton
  • Livingstone
  • Logan
Victoria

Greater Shepparton
Western Australia
  • The Ngaanyatjarra Lands (the shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and the community of Kiwirrkurra, in the shire of East Pilbara)
  • Metropolitan Perth and the Kimberley region (see below for postcodes)

VIM is available in the following postcodes in Metropolitan Perth and the Kimberley region:

6000, 6003, 6004, 6005, 6006, 6007, 6008, 6009, 6010, 6011, 6012, 6014, 6015, 6016, 6017, 6018, 6019, 6020, 6021, 6022, 6023, 6024, 6025, 6026, 6027, 6028, 6029, 6030, 6031, 6032, 6033, 6034, 6035, 6036, 6037, 6038, 6050, 6051, 6052, 6053, 6054, 6055, 6056, 6057, 6058, 6059, 6060, 6061, 6062, 6063, 6064, 6065, 6066, 6067, 6068, 6069, 6070, 6071, 6072, 6073, 6074, 6076, 6081, 6082, 6083, 6084, 6090, 6100, 6101, 6102, 6103, 6104, 6105, 6106, 6107, 6108, 6109, 6110, 6111, 6112, 6121, 6122, 6123, 6124, 6125, 6126, 6147, 6148, 6149, 6150, 6151, 6152, 6153, 6154, 6155, 6156, 6157, 6158, 6159, 6160, 6161, 6162, 6163, 6164, 6165, 6166, 6167, 6168, 6169, 6170, 6171, 6172, 6173, 6174, 6175, 6176, 6180, 6181, 6207, 6208, 6209, 6210, 6211, 6213, 6214, 6215, 6390, 6391, 6501, 6502, 6504, 6505, 6556, 6558, 6725, 6726, 6728, 6740, 6743, 6765, 6770.

VIM is available in the following local government areas, in Greater Adelaide:

  • Playford
  • Adelaide
  • Adelaide Hill
  • Burnside
  • Campbelltown
  • Charles Sturt
  • Gawler
  • Holdfast Bay
  • Marion
  • Mitcham
  • Mount Barker
  • Norwood Payneham St Peters
  • Onkaparinga
  • Port Adelaide Enfield
  • Prospect
  • Salisbury
  • Tea Tree Gully
  • Unley
  • Walkerville
  • West Torrens

Deferral of sunsetting date for certain instruments

The following legislative instruments were due to sunset on 1 October 2022:

  • declaring New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria to be voluntary income management areas for the purposes of the SS(Admin) Act Part 3B (the Social Security (Administration) (Declared voluntary income management areas – New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria) Determination 2012), and
  • declaring the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands to be a voluntary income management area for the purposes of the SS(Admin) Act Part 3B (the Social Security (Administration) (Declared income management area - Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands) Determination 2012).

A subsequent legislative instrument, the Legislation (Deferral of Sunsetting – Social Security (Administration) Instruments) Certificate 2022, which came into force on 30 September 2022, has deferred the sunsetting of these instruments until 1 October 2023.

Act reference: SS(Admin)Act section 123TGA Declared voluntary income management area

Social Security (Administration) (Declared voluntary income management area - Northern Territory) Determination 2020

Social Security (Administration) (Declared voluntary income management areas - Western Australia) Determination 2022

Social Security (Administration) (Declared voluntary income management areas - New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria) Determination 2012

Social Security (Administration) (Declared income management area - Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands) Determination 2012

Social Security (Administration) (Declared income management area - Ngaanyatjarra Lands) Determination 2023

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