Registered home educators are exempt from the Welfare to Work laws which apply to parents with children over the age of six.
Registered homeschooling is one of the exemption categories along with large families (four or more children aged between 6 and 16), parents caring for foster children and children with significant disabilities.
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Centrelink Parenting Payments – All States
Home Education on a Budget
By Susan Wight
So you’ve decided to home educate but now you are worried about how you will ever afford all of those flashy curriculum resources, especially if home education means living on one income as it does for most families.
The good news is that home education does not have to be expensive…
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By John Peacock
1. Flip an encyclopaedia
Encyclopaedias are so cheap from Op. shops these days that you could probably get a few for nothing. They have one feature that I like and that is even better than Google. Because there is so much knowledge these days encyclopaedias tend to edit old stuff out to make room [...]
Isolated Children’s Allowance – all states
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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Home educated students are eligible to use the School Dental Service.
Who can use this service?
All primary school children
Students in years 9, 10, 11 and 12, who are 14 to 17 years of age if they or their parents hold current health care or pensioner concession card.
Adolescents aged 14 to 17 who may have left formal [...]