These icons will help you locate the concessions available to you:
Companion Card
Services Australia Health Care Card
Services Australia Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
Concession available to anyone who meets the eligibility criteria
Services Australia Pensioner Concession Card
Seniors Card
Department of Veterans' Affairs Pensioner Concession Card
Department of Veterans’ Affairs Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
The annual electricity concession provides a daily discount to eligible customers as a cents per day rate. The current concession is 140.740 cents per day.
Eligible cards are:
To apply for the annual electricity concession, eligible customers should contact their electricity retailer by telephone or complete the Application Form
For 2021 only, the Tasmanian Government also provided a once-off $125 Winter Energy Supplement to eligible concession customers (same eligibility requirements as for the annual electricity concession). The Winter Energy Supplement was provided to assist eligible concession customers with the cost of winter electricity bills. Provided you were already registered to receive the annual electricity concession, retailers applied the discount automatically.
For more information contact your authorised retailer
The Heating Allowance is a payment of $56 per year to eligible pensioners residing in Tasmania to assist with heating costs. Two payments of $28 are made each year on 15 May and 15 September.
Payments are made under the Pensioners (Heating Allowances) Act 1971.
Eligibility is means-tested and successful applicants do not need to re-apply each year for the allowance. The allowance is available to people who hold a Services Australia or DVA Pensioner Concession Card and receive any of the following:
A single pensioner must not have more than $1 750* in cash assets and married/de facto pensioners must not have more than $2 750.*
*Other conditions also apply.
Department of Communities Tasmania
Phone: 1800 300 068
Email: heatingallowance@communities.tas.gov.au
Web: www.communities.tas.gov.au
The life support concession provides a daily discount to eligible customers who use an approved life support system or who live with someone who uses such a system in their principal place of residence.
The approved devices and current rates are:
To apply for this concession, eligible customers need to complete the Application Form and have it certified by their medical practitioner before submitting it to their electricity retailer.
For more information contact your authorised retailer.
The medical cooling or heating concession provides a daily discount to eligible customers who have, or who live with a person who has, a medical condition that requires the cooling or heating of the customer's principal place of residence in order to manage that medical condition. The current concession is 42.155 cents per day.
To apply for this concession, eligible customers need to complete the Application Form and have it certified by their medical practitioner before submitting it to their electricity retailer.
As well as meeting the medical requirements, you must also have a Services Australia or DVA Pensioner Concession Card, or a Services Australia Health Care Card.
For more information contact your authorised retailer.