Department of Veterans' Affairs Commonwealth Seniors Health Card

Eligibility

Eligibility for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (DVA CSHC) is determined by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA).

The DVA CSHC is different to the Seniors Card issued by the Tasmanian Government.

The DVA provides a DVA CSHC to:

Australian, Commonwealth, allied veterans or mariners with qualifying service and are aged over 60 years
partners (including widows and widowers) of veterans or mariners with qualifying service and have reached age pension age
war widows or widowers receiving a War Widow(er’s) Pension or a Wholly Dependent Partner Payment and are aged over 60 years.

To be eligible you must:

meet the relevant age criteria
be an Australian resident and residing in Australia
not be receiving income support from DVA
not be receiving income support from Services Australia or hold a Services Australia CSHC, and
meet the CSHC income test. (There is no assets test).

Please note the DVA CSHC does not provide access to DVA’s health care arrangements and is to be treated the same as the Services Australia CSHC.

DVA Unique Identification Number (UIN)

In addition to listing your DVA file number (eg TX123456), the DVA PCC and DVA CSHC also lists your Unique Identification Number (UIN). The UIN helps concession providers to quickly check your concession eligibility if their computer systems can't match DVA records.