All Commonwealth seniors health card holders will receive up to $500 per household, Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth announced today.
The 490,000-plus recipients will include an extra 16,230 people granted access to the card after the federal government introduced higher income thresholds for eligibility last November.
The new income limits are $90,000 for singles and $144,000 (combined) for couples.
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The government claimed this would benefit 52,000 older people by 2026-27.
Rishworth said the energy relief would be available from July this year.
