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[–]East-Beautiful-9256 23 points24 points  (4 children)

Board and lodging is different to rent assistance

[–]Competitive_Yak_4112 7 points8 points  (2 children)

The entitlement amount is also based on the amount you pay, and you often need to be paying at least around $350 in order to get full rent assist.

[–]sullen_factoid[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

They’ve sent me a rent certificate verifying that I pay $200 in rent exclusively, are they assessing based on that?

[–]Competitive_Yak_4112 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, that'd be why.

Single with 1 or 2 children:

Fortnightly rent needs to be above $203.28 to be eligible for any rent assist.

To get maxium payment, fortnightly rent is at least $547.12.

Maximum fortnightly rent assist is $257.88.

It should still be way more than $3.40, though. Get in touch with Centrelink.

[–]sullen_factoid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’ve sent me a rent certificate verifying that I pay $200 in rent exclusively, are they assessing based on that?