Definition
The weekly amount of Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) the income unit is entitled to receive.
Components
Data Element
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Data Element Concept (this item)Centrelink income unit—Commonwealth Rent Assistance amount
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Object ClassCentrelink income unit
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PropertyCommonwealth Rent Assistance amount
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Conceptual DomainNone
Comments
Context:
The Commonwealth pays rent assistance to recipients of income support payments, including those who receive more than the base rate of family tax benefit (Part A), and pay private rent above minimum thresholds. Rent assistance can be used for:
- rent (other than for public housing or the state/territory owned and managed Indigenous housing); or
- service and maintenance fees in a retirement village; or
- lodging; or
- fees paid to use a site for a caravan or other accommodation which is occupied as the principal home; or
- fees paid to moor a vessel occupied as the principal home.
This metadata item is used in the calculation of housing affordability.
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