This question is directed to all the pensioners who are on the road. We are preparing to head to WA soon for about 18 months to 2 years and will no longer be using our current address. In fact most probably wont return to the current address. How have you gone about ensuring Centrelink can contact you should they need to. I am assuming that they will use our email address but not sure. K
we will go and see them after Easter to get this sorted
thanking you in advance for your info.
regards
briche
-- Edited by briche on Friday 2nd of April 2021 03:30:52 PM
DMaxer said
04:32 PM Apr 2, 2021
Hi briche. If you have a MyGov account you can link all Government Depts such as Medicare, ATO, Centrelink. When they send you a letter it is sent electronically to your inbox and you receive an SMS advising you of the letter. I am not on a pension but I saw that you could do that when I opened my MyGov account.
I understand that Centrelink also has an app you can download that does the same.
Peter_n_Margaret said
04:46 PM Apr 2, 2021
Centrelink will not correspond by email if you are in Australia.
When we volunteered in Fiji for 2 years, they would.
Cheers,
Peter
The Travelling Dillberries said
04:53 PM Apr 2, 2021
All our correspondence from Centrelink is by email. You won't have any worries if you do as Dmaxer suggests, we have.
bgt said
05:07 PM Apr 2, 2021
They send me an email saying I have a message in MyGov.
Peter_n_Margaret said
05:12 PM Apr 2, 2021
bgt wrote:
They send me an email saying I have a message in MyGov.
That is not 2 way email correspondence. You MUST go via MyGov. Is that correct?
We do not have a MyGov account. All correspondence from Centrelink is via snail mail in Oz. In Fiji we had 2 way email correspondence with them.
Cheers,
Peter
EJP said
05:38 PM Apr 2, 2021
As Dmaxer said. We have a MyGov account which is linked to Medicare and the app. Centrelink advise us via email of any notifications which appear in our My Gov account inbox.
Greg 1 said
05:48 PM Apr 2, 2021
Same here. I get a message saying that I have correspondence in MyGov.
I have the MyGov app linked in to Centrelink.
You can upload documents and other things they want via that app.
Dougwe said
07:32 AM Apr 3, 2021
Hi Brian and Cheryl, I do everything through MyGov as well However, your actual Pension Card is sent via snail mail to an address your have supplied and that will be the address on your card.
I f claiming rent Assistance at all I go into a Centrelink Office and not rely on MyGov. I like to know it is actually done by speaking with one of the staff.
Has worked that way for me for many moons now. I have no complaints.
This question is directed to all the pensioners who are on the road. We are preparing to head to WA soon for about 18 months to 2 years and will no longer be using our current address. In fact most probably wont return to the current address. How have you gone about ensuring Centrelink can contact you should they need to. I am assuming that they will use our email address but not sure. K
we will go and see them after Easter to get this sorted
thanking you in advance for your info.
regards
briche
-- Edited by briche on Friday 2nd of April 2021 03:30:52 PM
Hi briche. If you have a MyGov account you can link all Government Depts such as Medicare, ATO, Centrelink. When they send you a letter it is sent electronically to your inbox and you receive an SMS advising you of the letter. I am not on a pension but I saw that you could do that when I opened my MyGov account.
I understand that Centrelink also has an app you can download that does the same.
When we volunteered in Fiji for 2 years, they would.
Cheers,
Peter
All our correspondence from Centrelink is by email. You won't have any worries if you do as Dmaxer suggests, we have.
That is not 2 way email correspondence. You MUST go via MyGov. Is that correct?
We do not have a MyGov account. All correspondence from Centrelink is via snail mail in Oz. In Fiji we had 2 way email correspondence with them.
Cheers,
Peter
I f claiming rent Assistance at all I go into a Centrelink Office and not rely on MyGov. I like to know it is actually done by speaking with one of the staff.
Has worked that way for me for many moons now. I have no complaints.