thread: payment to help with starting year 7..

  1. #1
    DoubleK Guest

    payment to help with starting year 7..

    not sure if im posting in the right section!

    a lady i work has her son starting high school next year, and she wondered if the payment still existed? if so, does anyone know how much she is entitled to roughly?

    i dont know anything about it, but i vaguely remember hearing something about a payment for when kids start prep....

    thanks in advance!!

  2. #2
    BellyBelly Member

    Oct 2007
    Ever so slowly going crazy...
    2,268

    There has been a payment at the start of each year, $50, for every child at school.

    But I did hear that it has been scrapped, Starting Jan, 09.

    I 've never heard of a different one for going to high school though, sorry....

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Dec 2007
    Geelong
    3,438

    Hi,
    Last year DS started High School and I received $300 for him. Not sure if it's the same this year.

    Regards,
    Dianne

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Jan 2005
    Down by the ocean
    6,110

    It's a Victorian state government payment of $300 which is only given for prep and year 7 students! She should get it as a voucher in the first week of term 1 that you cash in at the post office.
    We didn't get the $50 per child that the NSW has scrapped Jodie.