What benefits can Australian parents immigrants enjoy?

Parental immigrants can be roughly divided into: ordinary parents and paying parents. Parents can enjoy the following benefits after landing in Australia as permanent residents, whether they are ordinary or paid.

1. medical card (national medical card)

Enjoy Australia's domestic medical policy, and go to bulkbill's doctor's office without extra money (7 yuan's medical care in the new scheme is still under discussion). Generally, blood tests do not cost money, but they can't be done too often, usually once a year. If the medication control is 3 high, you can do it once every six months under the guidance of a doctor (doctor's advice). If you are going to do B-ultrasound or filming, you usually have to pay about 40%. You have to pay for prescription drugs yourself.

2. Old age card

After becoming PR, if both parents are 60 years old, they can apply for an old-age card. Go to the post office to get a form (or download it online), fill it out, and find a qualified person to make a statutory declaration. It usually takes 3-5 weeks to apply, and they will also send a myki car card. Just help them register and transfer some money online for them to use. Enjoy a half-price ticket discount, and take a bus on Saturday and Sunday for free, even if it is cross-regional.

3. Health card

After becoming an official PR, you can apply for a two-year health card for low-income people, which is suitable for prescription drugs. No matter what the original price of these drugs is, you only need to pay 6 dollars a box.

4. Commonwealth Health Card for the Elderly.

After becoming an official public relation, parents who have reached the pension age can directly apply for the Federal Health Care Card (CSHC). To apply for this card, they must have lived in Australia for 65,438+004 weeks and can apply three months before they reach the age of 65. If they are public relations, they can receive it, and they may be eligible for supplements from the elderly. At present, this subsidy is paid quarterly.

In addition, holders of health cards or Commonwealth Senior Citizen Health Cards (CSHC) will have their cards cancelled if they leave the country for more than six weeks. Parents with these two cards should call the welfare bureau when they leave the country and tell them the exact date of their parents' departure and entry. When they come back, they should also call the welfare bureau before their cards can be used again. It is estimated that the low-income health care card needs to be reissued.

5. Pension

As for the time when you can receive the old-age pension after PR reaches 10 years, according to the requirement of residential in age pension on centerlink, the applicant must have lived in Australia for 10 years and must have lived continuously for 5 years. From 20 1 365438+1October1,the amount of welfare received by the elderly who have been abroad for more than 6 weeks will be reduced accordingly. If you leave Australia for more than 26 weeks, your benefits will be reduced accordingly.