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Studying at ANU (interstate costs)
lala1911:
It's achievable.
$407.50 Youth Allowance + $75 rent assistance per fortnight (around that, depends on how much rent is). That's $475 fortnightly there. You can live off that (or work casual/part-time to get that extremely useful bonus $100-200), providing that you don't blow money easily.
I'm sure you're eligible for more payments. Also, I'm positive that once you leave home, you receive a payment... around $1000 I thought I saw on Centrelink. Don't exactly quote me on this, but I'm fairly positive.
So.. if you're receiving $475 a week, you're able to live in at ANU for $181/pw. That would leave you with $72/wk left with around $55/wk.
You can find out what you're eligible for at this link:
http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/centrelink/abstudy/payment-rates
Hope I helped
Lasercookie:
--- Quote from: lala1911 on April 16, 2013, 11:40:40 am ---You can find out what you're eligible for at this link:
http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/centrelink/abstudy/payment-rates
--- End quote ---
I'll just point out that you linked to the payment rates for ABSTUDY, not Youth Allowance. Some of the rates might be similar, but there are quite a few differences there. Since it's best to also look at all the pages about eligibility and various conditions so I'm not going to bother giving a direct link to the Youth Allowance/Rent Assistance payment rates.
lala1911:
--- Quote from: laserblued on April 16, 2013, 03:55:49 pm ---I'll just point out that you linked to the payment rates for ABSTUDY, not Youth Allowance. Some of the rates might be similar, but there are quite a few differences there. Since it's best to also look at all the pages about eligibility and various conditions so I'm not going to bother giving a direct link to the Youth Allowance/Rent Assistance payment rates.
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Hi. ABStudy and Youth Allowance, you still receive $407.50 fortnightly and approx $75 $100 a week for rent assistance, it does depend on how much rent is. Assuming the rent is $189 a week, you can expect up to $136 a week actually, so my $75 guess was wrong, I'd estimate around $100/pw then.
Youth Allowance: http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/centrelink/youth-allowance/payment-rates
Rent Assistance: http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/centrelink/rent-assistance/payment-rates
Lasercookie:
--- Quote from: lala1911 on April 16, 2013, 05:00:48 pm ---Hi. ABStudy and Youth Allowance, you still receive $407.50 fortnightly and approx $75 $100 a week for rent assistance, it does depend on how much rent is.
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Yes, but the ABSTUDY link lists "other payments and benefits" that "may be payable in addition to" which don't apply to Youth Allowance. Hence why I pointed it out in case someone reading this didn't realise that it's not the Youth Allowance page that you gave them.
osgood:
Hmm, thank you all so much for the insight once again- very helpful. I'll be sure to pop into centrelink at some point this year but I'm tentatively hopeful.
Thanks again!
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