If you are completing Year 12 or an equivalent qualification in November or December this year, you can elect to have your Youth Allowance payment start from 1 January next year if you lodge a claim from 1 October to 31 December inclusive. For academic reasons the workload of a tertiary or secondary student may be reduced to two-thirds of the normal workload because:. Please telephone Centrelink on 13 23 For Tertiary study the allowable time is the minimum time it would take to complete the course studying full-time plus an additional study period.
Where a course has semester based subjects, the allowable time is the minimum time plus one semester. If the course has year long subjects, the allowable time is the minimum time plus an additional academic year.
For the purposes of Youth Allowance , an approved course of education or study is one approved by the Minister for Education, Science and Training. There is no minimum duration for a course to be approved, but the length of a course may influence the date from which you are considered to be a full-time student. If you are under 21 you may get Youth Allowance while you are doing non-approved study. You will however, need to establish that the study will improve your work prospects and enter into an Activity Agreement.
If this is the case, you may not get the benefit of receiving the higher fortnight income free area or access to the Student Income bank.
For the purposes of Austudy , an approved course of education or study is one approved by the Minister for Education, Science and Training.
To maintain consistency with student income support policy, as defined by the Act, and the new amendments which extends income support to Masters courses, an additional amendment is required to remove the current restriction on the provision of income support to students who have already attained a Masters degree.
This amendment has no effect on the existing allowable time and progress rules, which are maintained. It also does not apply to students who have attained a doctorate. Austudy customers are not eligible for payment as a student if they have already completed study at the Doctorate level this preclusion applies to Austudy only as per s 2 SSA. There is no corresponding references for Youth Allowance. Please provide the hours per week you spend studying not including private study , for example, you are attending 15 hours a week of face-to-face study.
Please read these terms and conditions carefully. If you do not accept the terms and conditions you will not be paid a Student Start-up Loan. The loan is to help with the up-front costs of study such as textbooks and specialised equipment. For this reason, Centrelink must have a Tax File Number on record when the loan is issued.
The loan is available in two half-yearly instalments per calendar year, with the eligibility periods being;. The loan amount may be adjusted in line with the Consumer Price Index, so future instalments, and the total amount paid, may be different. You will be required to repay your Student Start-up loan through the taxation system. Details are on the Australian Taxation Office website. You will not be able to make early repayments to Centrelink.
If you wish to commence repaying any loans, you will need to contact the Australian Taxation Office. For each semester or each year, you take out a Student Start-up Loan, the amount you will have to repay will be recovered through the Australian Tax Office.
Completed study can be disregarded when calculating previous study time, but only if the course was completed more than 10 years ago. Studies undertaken more than 10 years ago that are part of a course completed within the last 10 years are not to be disregarded. The Bachelor of Science is a 3 year degree and comprises semester based subjects 2 semesters per year.
The maximum allowable time for this degree is 3 years and one semester. Amelia had completed equivalent level study within the last 10 years Bachelor of Economics in to and even though commenced more than 10 years ago, all of the study i. Amelia's allowable time for her Bachelor of Science degree is one semester.
If you are 25 years of age or older and taking a postgraduate degree full-time, you can apply for Austudy instead. Austudy, however, has some further eligibility requirements, and is only available for some postgraduate degrees.
You can learn more about the effects of personal income on Austudy here. Semester 1 of his Bachelor of Arts in will be disregarded as it is outside of 10 years. However, if Jack was to commence the Bachelor of Science in , the Bachelor of Arts would not be taken into account as it has been more than 10 years since he has undertaken any previous study at the same level.
It should be noted that Jack's allowable time will be assessed from the day on which he enrols in his current course, not from when he enrols in each year of the course. If Jack enrols in the course in Semester 2, , his allowable time will include the study from Semester 2, His allowable time will not be reset in Semester 1, even though the previous study would be more than 10 years ago.
Recipients can study a second course at the SAME level within the allowable study time rules. This is irrespective of whether a recipient had received Austudy for the first qualification.
The Secretary may approve allowable study time of up to 4 times the minimum period in particular cases 3. If a student has studied part-time for a course over a certain period, the time spent by the student on that course is taken to be the proportion of that period calculated by using the formula:.
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