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Centrelink reporting and payment dates: Easter and Anzac Day 2025

by the Retirement Essentials Team | Centrelink Age Pension

Easter holidays and Anzac day mean that your Centrelink reporting and payment dates may change. Here are the main dates you need to know:

Office and call centre closures

Centrelink service centres (and most call centres) will close for the Easter and Anzac holidays as follows:

Good Friday, Friday 18 April 2025

Easter Monday, Monday 21 April 2025

Anzac Day Friday, Friday 25 April 2025.

Reporting and payment dates may also change and you may be required to report early.

Your Centrelink online account also shows the new reporting date for the Easter and Anzac Day reporting period.

Do I need to advise Centrelink of an inheritance?

by the Retirement Essentials Team | Video Tutorials

It's a common concern for many of our Retirement Essentials community members: how will receiving an inheritance impact their Age Pension benefits? With people living longer, it's increasingly common to receive an inheritance later in life, often during retirement...

Navigating the Age Pension with a younger spouse

by the Retirement Essentials Team | Video Tutorials

In any couple one of the partners by nature will be younger. That’s a given. What is less well known is the radical difference it can make to use the rules of retirement income to your advantage if one of you decides to leave full time work first.

These rules apply to both the Age Pension and superannuation.

Wendy & her husband would like to maximise their Age Pension

Q. My husband is older than me and qualifies for an Age Pension at the end of the year. I will not qualify for another 3 years. My question is can I access my super when he is on the Age Pension and I am 64, and after 3 years when I turn 67 will Centrelink re-assess my super balance?