Sickness Allowance
Sickness Allowance provides income support to people who are temporarily unfit, due to illness or injury, to perform their usual work or study and have a job to return to, or intend to resume studying when fit to do so.
To be eligible for Sickness Allowance a person must:
- be temporarily incapacitated for work or study because of sickness or an accident; and
- have an incapacity for work or study wholly due to a medical condition arising from the sickness or accident; and
- have been employed or in full-time education immediately before the incapacity occurred; and
- be intending to return to that employment or resume full-time studies when their incapacity ends; and
- be at least 21 (or 25 if receiving Austudy) and less than age pension age (65 for men and 62.5 for women); and
- satisfy residence requirements.
To find out more about Sickness Allowance and your eligibility for this payment: