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Apply for a VET Student Loan for an approved diploma or other eligible VET course. Check your provider, course, citizenship, academic suitability, HELP balance, TFN, USI and census day before submitting the eCAF.
If your Australian higher education provider closes or stops delivering your course, tuition protection may help you continue your studies or receive a refund.
Ask an Australian registered training organisation to assess skills gained through work, previous training or life experience toward a VET qualification. Learn what evidence to prepare and how to challenge a decision.
Get a free, government-authenticated record of your nationally recognised VET training and choose whether to share your full transcript or an extract.
Claim Pensioner Education Supplement through Centrelink if you receive a qualifying payment and meet the approved study, study-load and residence rules.
Update the personal or contact details recorded on your Australian Unique Student Identifier (USI), including your name, date of birth, email, phone number or address.
Apply for SA-HELP through your higher education provider to defer some or all of your Student Services and Amenities Fee using a separate SA-HELP eCAF.
Learn who can use FEE-HELP for a full fee-paying higher education place, how to complete the provider-issued eCAF, and the TFN, USI, HELP balance and census-date rules.
Eligible Australian Apprentices can apply for an income-contingent Australian Apprenticeship Support Loan through ADMS and receive monthly payments while training.
Claim Youth Allowance as a full-time student or Australian Apprentice, including age rules, independence, income tests, documents and the Centrelink online process.
A practical guide to claiming Austudy through Centrelink if you are 25 or older and studying full time or completing a full-time Australian Apprenticeship.
Apply through your Australian higher education provider for an OS-HELP loan to help pay travel, accommodation and study costs while completing part of your course overseas.
Apply through your higher education provider for Commonwealth Prac Payment while completing an eligible mandatory teaching, nursing, midwifery or social work placement.
Create your Australian Unique Student Identifier online for university, VET or other nationally recognised training. Learn who needs a USI, which identity documents can be used, international student rules, CSP and HELP deadlines, and what to do if you already have a USI.
Apply for HECS-HELP for an Australian Commonwealth supported place by checking your eligibility, preparing your TFN and USI, accepting your CSP and submitting the electronic Commonwealth Assistance Form by your provider's census date.