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2Effect of overseas travel on your payments
Permanent departure from Australia
If you leave Australia permanently, your entitlement to the following DVA payments and benefits will cease on departure
from Australia:
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Rent Assistance;
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Remote Area Allowance;
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Veterans Supplement/MRCA Supplement;
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Commonwealth Seniors Health Card;
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Energy Supplement.
If you receive a service pension, age pension or income support supplement, this payment will generally continue when you
leave Australia, unless you recently returned to Australia to claim the payment. However, part of the Pension Supplement
portion of your payment will be cancelled.
Temporary departure from Australia
If you leave Australia temporarily, you may retain DVA payments and benefits that are affected by overseas travel for a
certain period before you lose entitlement to the payment or benefit.
Your entitlement will cease when you have been
Payment or Benefit
temporarily absent from Australia for more than:
Rent Assistance
26 weeks
(if you continue to pay rent for your home in Australia)
Remote Area Allowance
8 weeks
Veterans Supplement
26 weeks
MRCA Supplement
Pension Supplement
6 weeks
(not including Basic Pension Supplement)
Energy Supplement
6 weeks
How will I be paid while I am overseas?
Your DVA payments will continue to be paid into your normal Australian payment account.
If you are absent from Australia long-term or permanently, your DVA payments may be made every four weeks into your
bank account in your country of residence.
The account you nominate for payment outside Australia must be:
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in your name, or it may be a joint account with another person;
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capable of receiving payments from overseas by direct deposit or international wire; and
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in your local currency (or US dollars where specified on the form for your country).
Will DVA pay for medical treatment while I am overseas?
While you are overseas you will be eligible for treatment at DVA expense for your accepted disabilities only.
The treatment needs to be the same as, or similar to, treatment and cost considered appropriate in Australia.
Please contact DVA if you are unsure of your accepted disabilities.
For more information refer to Fact Sheet
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HSV65 - Receiving Health Services while Overseas.
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