Centrelink

For Centrelink payments or social security in Australia, see Social security in Australia.
Centrelink

Centrelink office in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
Agency overview
Formed 1997 (1997)
Preceding
  • Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency
Type Program
Jurisdiction Commonwealth of Australia
Motto Giving You Options
Minister responsible
Parent department Department of Human Services
Key document
Website www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/dhs/centrelink
A Centrelink office at Innaloo, Western Australia
Centrelink logo until 2013

The Centrelink Master Program, or more commonly Centrelink, is a master program of the Australian Government that is managed under the authority of the Department of Human Services. Centrelink delivers a range of government payments and services for retirees, the unemployed, families, carers, parents, people with disabilities, Indigenous Australians, and people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and provides services at times of major change.[1] The majority of Centrelink's services are the disbursement of social security payments.

History and operations

Centrelink commenced initially as a government agency of the Department of Social Security under the trading name of the Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency in early 1997. Following the passage of the Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency Act 1997, the Centrelink brand name came into effect in late 1997. Offices were established nationally to manage services to people in need of social security payments.

On 1 July 2011, Centrelink, together with Medicare Australia, was integrated into the Department of Human Services as a result of the Human Services Act, 2011 (Cth), with the department retaining the brand name as part of its set of master programs.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Portfolio Budget Statements 2013-14" (PDF). Department of Human Services. Commonwealth of Australia. May 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013. p. 3

External links

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