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Registered Victorian home educators are eligible for the School Start Bonus. Parents are granted this money to assist with the costs (books, equipment etc) involved with starting school or starting secondary school. Prep equivalent payments are for children aged five before [...] At the end of 2007, home education students who were receiving the Youth Allowance received letters from Centrelink stating that their registration with the VRQA was now deemed insufficient evidence of study in a suitable course. Consequently their payments ceased. The federal government has introduced a controversial bill to link welfare payments to school attendance. They intend to trial this system in WA and NT before rolling it out in other states. Home education need not be expensive. You can home educate with a library card, the resources you already have at home and free resources in your community. An Internet connection is also extremely useful if you can afford it. Many commercial homeschooling supplies are available if families choose to use them and prices vary. So [...] Home educators are eligible for the Education Tax Refund if they are also entitled to Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A for the relevant financial year and are registered with the relevant state organisation (e.g. The VRQA in Victoria). HEN has Public Liability Insurance to $10,000,000. Members can access this insurance for the purposes of: Venue or camp hire ($10,000,000 is the usual amount required by most venues) There are exclusion clauses for adventure activities; volunteers who are drunk and disorderly; and so on. Members [...] Registered home educators are exempt from the Welfare to Work laws which apply to parents with children over the age of six. By Susan Wight By John Peacock This assistance is paid to all families who have children in boarding school or living away from home in order to attend school. It is also paid for children who are enrolled in a state approved Distance Education programme. If you are home educating your child for medical reasons you may also be eligible for [...] |
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