Notification of Overseas Travel

							                                                                        Notification of Overseas Travel
                                                                                     DVA File number
The personal information provided in this form will be                        Security check (for counter and telephone use only)
used to update Departmental records and some of the
                                                                                    DOB                        Address             File No.
information may be disclosed to Centrelink and the
                                                                                    Account for                Partner’s
Australian Taxation Office for the purposes of data                                 payment                    name
matching, and to the Health Insurance Commission for
                                                                                    Other
treatment account payments.

Telephone advice                                                Name of person providing information
                            Privacy information disclosed to
                            person providing information        Phone No.                           Relationship to pensioner
    Counter visit

 Pensioner’s details                                                          10. While absent from Australia:
1. Surname
                                                                                  a) will you have a telephone service connected, in your name,
                                                                                     to your home in Australia?
2. Given name(s)                                                                           No                Yes
                                                                                  b) will you be paying rent for your home in Australia?

3. Address                                                                                 No                Yes

                                                                              11. If you are receiving Remote Area Allowance:
                                            Postcode                              a) date of departure from the Remote Area

4. Phone No.                                                                                    /        /
      (            )                                                              b) expected date of return to the Remote Area

 Travel details                                                                                 /        /
5. Who is travelling overseas?
          Pensioner                    Partner                                Declaration (notification in person)
          Child/ren - please list child/ren’s names below                     I declare that the information I have given in this form is complete
                                                                              and correct.
                                                                              Your signature

                                                                                                                                    /         /
6. Do you want your mail from Veterans’ Affairs to go                         Your partner’s signature
   to another address while you are overseas?
          No               Yes - please provide details below                                                                       /         /

                                                                                                             Office Use
                                                                            A copy of this notification has been sent to:


7. Date of departure from Australia                                         Your name (BLOCK LETTERS)                           Markout
               /       /
8. Expected date of return to Australia                                     Signature
               /       /
                                                                                                                                        /          /
 9. What is the purpose of the trip?
                                                                            Copy forwarded to Health
          Holiday, or visiting friends/relatives
                                                                            Change of address required?            Yes          VIEW comments only
          Moving overseas                Other - please specify below
                                                                            Set reviews?                           Yes          Not required
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What is the Pharmaceutical Allowance?
All pensioners who are prescribed medicine are required to pay a co-payment for each prescription item
received. Pharmaceutical Allowance is a non-taxable payment, which is paid fortnightly to help with the cost
of these co-payments.

What is Remote Area Allowance?
Remote Area Allowance is a fortnightly, non-taxable payment made to pensioners to help offset the higher
than normal costs, such as transport and communication, incurred when living in remote areas of Australia.

What is Rent Assistance?
Rent Assistance is a non-taxable allowance to help meet the cost of rented accommodation.

What is Telephone Allowance?
Telephone Allowance is a payment made to eligible DVA pensioners and Commonwealth Seniors Health
Card holders to assist with the payment of telephone accounts and internet accounts. Telephone Allowance
is not taxable and is not income tested or assets tested.

Affect of overseas travel on allowances
Holiday travel
• Telephone Allowance, Rent Assistance and Pharmaceutical Allowance continue to be paid for 26 weeks
   after departure from Australia if you receive service pension or income support supplement and 13 weeks
   if you receive age pension, provided you still meet all eligibility criteria. After 26 weeks if you receive
   service pension or income support supplement and 13 weeks if you receive age pension these allowances
   cease.
• Remote Area Allowance ceases 8 weeks after departure from the remote area.

• Seniors Concession Allowance and Utilities Allowance are not payable if, on the allowance test day,
  absence from Australia has been more than 13 weeks.

Permanent departure from Australia
• Telephone Allowance, Rent Assistance, Pharmaceutical Allowance, Seniors Concession Allowance,
   Utilities Allowance and Remote Area Allowance cease day after departure from Australia.

How will I be paid while I am overseas?
Your pension payment cannot be paid directly to you in another country. This means you will need to keep
an Australian bank account open into which your pension payment can be deposited.

For more information refer to Fact Sheets
• IS14 - Income Support Allowances                 • IS77 - Travelling Overseas




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