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Title: State Concessions


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State Concessions
Department of Human Services, Concessions
Unit IWONA LIDER ELAINE BATEMAN
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Objective of Concessions
  • To improve the affordability of key services
  • Directed to individuals who hold an appropriate
    Commonwealth card

3
Eligible Cards
4
Types of concessions
  • Municipal Rates Concessions
  • Water and Sewerage Concessions
  • Energy Concessions (Winter Energy and Off-Peak
    Concessions)
  • Emergency and Hardship Relief Grants
  • Utility Relief Grants
  • Capital Grants

5
The Life Support Concession
  • A quarterly rebate on the electricity costs
    associated with the operation of certain life
    support machines
  • Oxygen concentrators
  • Polio respirators
  • Intermittent peritoneal dialysis
  • Haemodialysis machines

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The Multiple Sclerosis Concession
  • A 17.5 percent reduction on the final quarterly
    summer electricity bill (mid-February to mid-May)
  • For cardholders or members of their household who
    suffer from Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • Acknowledges the high electricity costs incurred
    by MS sufferers

7
The Multiple Sclerosis Concession (cont)
  • Sufferers of other conditions may be eligible for
    the concession
  • Conditions include Parkinsons disease, motor
    neurone disease, quadriplegia and scleroderma
  • Applications from sufferers of other conditions
    should be forwarded to the Concessions Unit

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Publications and information
  • Concessions information line
  • 1800 658521
  • Guide to Concessions
  • State concessions Your Entitlements brochure
  • Posters and information cards
  • www.dhs.vic.gov.au/concessions
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