2019 SENIORS EXPO ADVERTISING FEATURE Scheme lends support
THE NT Seniors Recognition Scheme was introduced on July 1, 2018 to recognise the valuable contribution senior Territorians make to the community.
Residents who are 65 years or older are eligible to receive an annual payment of $500 to use towards the cost of travel, electricity and/or water.
Members who choose to use the payment for travel overseas, interstate or within the Northern Territory will receive travel vouchers.
The travel vouchers can also be used by a member for private vehicle travel or used to bring a relative or friend to visit the member in the Territory.
It is important that members of the NT Seniors Recognition Scheme who have unused travel vouchers issued in 2018-19 use them before they expire on June 30 2019.
Members who do not intend to use their travel vouchers can change their preference and have the payment put on their electricity or water account. Members who want to change their preference must do so by May 31, 2019.
Members who book their own travel, must have completed the travel and submitted their manual reimbursement claim by 30 June this year.
If members are booking through an Approved Vendor, the booking musts be made before June 30 2019 and the travel vouchers redeemed but the travel can occur after this time as the payment has is applied at the time of booking and within the financial year.
Now is the time to update your details.
It is important that members keep the NT Concession and Recognition Unit informed of any changes to their personal information each year. This includes keeping us up to date of any changes to contact details and circumstances which may affect eligibility. Please tell the NTCRU if:
you move house or sell your home.
you are living with another member of the NT Concession Scheme or NT Seniors Recognition Scheme who may be receiving concessions on electricity or water.
you are not planning on being physically located within the Northern Territory for at least 183 days of the financial year or are moving interstate or overseas.
your bank account has changed.
you believe you have been overpaid or underpaid.
there has been changes to your Centrelink or Department of Veterans’ Affairs payments or if you have recently started receiving a Centrelink or Department of Veterans’ Affairs payments.
you have a new phone number.
you have a new email address. You can also nominate email as your preferred method of
contact to receive updates and information earlier.
you have a new postal address or no longer use your Post Office Box and want your mail sent to your home.
you would like to list dependants (under age of 16 year old) added on to your membership
record to access spectacles under the NT Concession Scheme.
you are receive the NT Seniors Recognition Scheme payment and would like to change your preference.
you would like to authorise another person to inquiry or act on your behalf or would like to stop another person acting on your behalf.
Visit us at the Seniors Expo or call 1800 777 704, email ntconcessionandrecognition@nt.gov.au or go to www.ntconcessions.nt.gov.au