Portability of benefits

Absence from Australia

Payment of benefits whilst overseas. Centrelink calls this: the 'Portability of Payments'

A full-time student may still continue to receive Youth Allowance/Austudy/Abstudy payments if you leave Australia to do approved study at an institution in another country, when those studies count towards your full-time Australian award course. However, benefit payments are for the period of the studies only. Please contact Centrelink well in advance of your planned travel to find out how your payment may be affected - and to enquire if you will need to re-register for Centrelink should you spend any additional or holiday time overseas.

New rulings also apply to students receiving the Disability Support Pension DSP (opens an external page).

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.