"That ICPA (Aust) lobbies the Minister for Education to add the Tertiary Access Payment (TAP) to the list of scholarships that are exempt from the Youth Allowance Income Test.”
Currently the Youth Allowance personal income test allows for up to $9,724 per year in scholarships received to be exempt from the income test. Some scholarships including Commonwealth Scholarships and the Relocation Scholarship are exempt from the income test and yet the Tertiary Access Payment isn’t. A student from remote Australia who is fortunate enough to receive a University Scholarship or Bursary (many of which give preference or are targeted at students from regional, remote and very remote areas) will find that combined with the $5,000 TAP payment that they exceed the scholarship threshold, and this affects their dependent Youth Allowance payment rate.
