Purpose
Services to be accessed with the HSSAC include:
- Welfare benefits, as administered by Centrelink. This included:
- unemployment,
- disability,
- veterans and
- study allowances.
- The Health Care Card and Seniors Health Card
- Medicare subsidised health care, both bulk-billing and claim back.
- The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), which provides subsidised medications.
- Child Support Agency Australia services
- CRS Australia vocational rehabilitation
One of the criticisms of the Access Card was that the need to use the card to access welfare and medical services made the card, in effect, compulsory. It was suggested that this was another attempt establish an Australia Card. On the other hand, Department of Human Services Secretary, Patricia Scott, told a Senate committee on 16 February 2007 that the wrongful detention of Cornelia Rau - who was held by immigration authorities for 10 months, despite being a legal resident - would not have occurred if the Access card was running.
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