Carers Allowance (Australia)

Carers Allowance is means tested, you are not eligible if your income exceeds $250,000 pa not aged tested - Centrelink $63.50 per week

Carers allowance - when give up career register with Centrelink for $63.50 per week

https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/services/centrelink/carer-allowance/claiming

When you give up work, apply for a carers allowance at Centrelink. It will take a few months to be processed but it will be backdated to when you first lodged your paperwork.

Carers allowance - when you give up your career, register with Centrelink for your carers allowance - $63.50 per week. This is means tested, you are not eligible if your income is over $250,000 pa, not age tested.

https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/services/centrelink/carer-allowance/claiming

Carers Receiving Carer Payment are automatically eligible for a Pensioner Concession Card, which gives them access to cheaper prescription medicines through the Pharmaceutical Benefits scheme and medical services funded by the Government. This card also gives carers access to concessions provided by the State and territory and local governments

I have written to both Federal Ministers for Aged Care and Centrelink, that this should be automatic, rather than having to apply for it

https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/subjects/payments-carers