Centrelink

Not to be confused with the American LGBT community centre organisation, CenterLink.
For Centrelink payments or social security in Australia, see Social security in Australia.

Centrelink

Centrelink office in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Agency overview
Formed1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Preceding
  • Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency
TypeProgram
JurisdictionAustralia
MottoGiving You Options
Minister responsible
Parent departmentServices Australia
Key document
Websiteservicesaustralia.gov.au/centrelink
A Centrelink office at Innaloo, Western Australia, in 2006
Centrelink logo until 2012

The Centrelink Master Program, or more commonly known as Centrelink, is a Services Australia master program[2] of the Australian Government. It delivers a range of government payments and services for retirees, the unemployed, families, carers, parents, people with disabilities, Indigenous Australians, students, apprentices and people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and provides services at times of major change.[3] The majority of Centrelink's services are the disbursement of social security payments.

  1. ^ "Our Ministers".
  2. ^ "Centrelink". Services Australia.
  3. ^ "Portfolio Budget Statements 2013-14" (PDF). Department of Human Services. Commonwealth of Australia. May 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013. p. 3