[WA] Student Assistance Payment up to $250/Student (ServiceWA App & Account Required) @ WA Department of Education

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[WA] Student Assistance Payment up to $250/Student (ServiceWA App & Account Required) @ WA Department of Education
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ozbargainy on 18/03/2024 - 17:46 education.wa.edu.au (1487 clicks)
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From the email

The new WA Student Assistance Payment will provide parents and carers with a $250 payment for EACH secondary student, and $150 for EACH student attending primary school or Kindergarten.

It’s support for all families – helping them to pay for those essential school uniforms, a new backpack, a calculator, sport and music costs, or even food for their kids’ lunchboxes.

Because I believe all students should have what they need for school – regardless of their financial situation.

You'll need a valid WA Student Number (WASN) to be eligible for the payment. You can find that number on your kid's Smartrider, school report, or NAPLAN results.

You can head to education.wa.edu.au/wasap for a bit more information on eligibility and how to claim.

The payments will be available through the ServiceWA app from the start of Term 2 (April 15), and I'll have more details in coming days on how to set up your ServiceWA account and digital identity.

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Comments

  • Dajaba on 18/03/2024 - 18:27
    +18

    It's nice being in a state with a budget surplus. :)

    • chrism238 on 18/03/2024 - 18:28

      Your GST at work (well, 70% of it, anyway).

      • AircraftFreight on 18/03/2024 - 18:46
        +12

        No, its a lack of bullshit over priced infrastructure projects, good fiscal state policy and good government - why do you think the government has 53/59 seats in the legislative assembly?

          • us3rnam3tak3n on 19/03/2024 - 12:49
            +2

            @infinite:

            locking it down for months at a time

            I think you have us confused with another state. Hardly any lockdowns in WA. Offhand I only remember a couple of weeks, though the mask mandate on public transport and inside buildings meant that I WFH for several more weeks (by choice).

        • bargaino on 18/03/2024 - 20:26

          a lack of bullshit over priced infrastructure projects

          nah, look around more. Hardly anyone using the $2.2billion airport line. Hopefully the Ellenbook one will give better value. Demolishing hospitals while people are wanting over a year to officially join the queue to see a doctor.

          We are still $28 billion in debt - $24,000 per household.

          why do you think the government has 53/59 seats

          Because of the Liberals. (And lots of iron ore money helps, but that is slowing down.)_

          • cook99 on 18/03/2024 - 21:18
            +3

            @bargaino: Can I just pay my $24,000 share now and they will leave me alone forever after?

          • liam2040 on 19/03/2024 - 04:25

            @bargaino: "why do you think the government has 53/59 seats"
            can't be bothered opening that can of worms at this hour, so who wants to go to DoT Cannington with me tomorrow?
            According to Google reviews, if we get there before they open it's only a 3 hour wait to be served. Thanks prudent fiscal management

          • R4 on 19/03/2024 - 09:37

            @bargaino: So you're saying the airport line shouldn't have been built?

            • bargaino on 19/03/2024 - 10:06

              @R4: Any time you hear "So you're saying…" , BS follows. Not a good way to make an argument. Try again please, and construct a real proposition, instead of a snowman.

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XMJTWD2mzs

              And of course Cathy Newman :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkcXRC4HZqc

              • R4 on 19/03/2024 - 11:14
                +1

                @bargaino: I'm not making an 'argument'. You're the one doing that.

                Get over yourself turbo.

                • bargaino on 19/03/2024 - 11:31

                  @R4: You most certainly are not :)

                  "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means" - Inigo Montoya

                  a reason or set of reasons given in support of an idea, action or theory.

                  • R4 on 19/03/2024 - 11:49

                    @bargaino: Then we're in agreement.

                    One thing I learnt a long time ago is that 'arguing' on the internet with people you don't know is pointless.

                    • bargaino on 19/03/2024 - 13:15

                      @R4: Yes. So to clarify, I said a lot of money was spent for little return, because people are not using it.
                      It therefore raises the question of what cost-benefit analysis was done on big projects generally.
                      That is just one example. The gov't is spending big, and not always for proven returns.

                      ( In contrast, the Mandurah and Joondalup extensions have been a big success - I'm not anti-train.
                      Given the low numbers using the airport train, a bus link to Bayswater might have made more sense? - including same major road upgrades. Maybe even a bus tunnel under the runways. )

      • R4 on 19/03/2024 - 09:33

        No, our GST at work.

  • dealsforlife on 18/03/2024 - 18:40
    +11

    I identify as a student…a student in the classroom of life

    • YoursTruly on 18/03/2024 - 21:00
      -2

      🙄 👀

      • Bii on 18/03/2024 - 21:19

        Home educator with self-enrollment and private ID - is it eligible?

    • R-Man on 18/03/2024 - 22:51
      +3

      The Facebook bio classic

      School of Hard Knocks
      University of Life

    • AircraftFreight on 18/03/2024 - 18:59
      +1

      The (profanity) are you on tonight?

        • AircraftFreight on 18/03/2024 - 19:04
          +2

          Child free people dont incur the cost of paying the average $32,552 on kindergarten per annum. Nor the cost of raising a child from birth to adulthood which runs into the hundreds of thousands to provide the next generation…

          • lookingforadeal7 on 18/03/2024 - 19:18
            -7

            @AircraftFreight: Imagine raising your own children instead of paying a kindergarten too, send them with all the grotty kids for 40k a year so they can get sick and have development issues later on in life. I just can't stand people who have children and dump them off, why have them if you aren't going to raise them yourself? The iPad generation is screwed.

        • Cletus vandamme on 18/03/2024 - 19:16
          +7

          You realise once children grow up they'll contribute taxes in their lifetime right? And us breeders pay tax aswell.

        • YoursTruly on 18/03/2024 - 21:03
          -1

          I feel ya

          Maybe the gov should be handing out free condoms now to them breeders.

        • rickashi on 18/03/2024 - 22:56
          +1

          Glad you ain't a breeder then mate. Doesn't sound like you're in the right mindset to be a parent. Keep on practising abstinence whilst some of us go about bucking the trend of population decline.

    • Warchest on 18/03/2024 - 19:07

      Completely out of touch with reality

    • aacheney on 18/03/2024 - 19:13
      +6

      TV?, no I was going to buy alcohol and smokes. Thanks for the money

      • Tiggrrrrr on 18/03/2024 - 19:22
        +1

        Invest it in scratchies.

      • happydude on 18/03/2024 - 19:46
        +1

        New BBQ for me!

        Of the glass variety!

    • CheapBrah on 18/03/2024 - 19:38
      +5

      Theres lots of pointless government spending but things that make it more financially viable for people to have children and therefore encourage it, especially when not means tested, are good because we need people to have kids to offset the aging population somewhat.

      At the end of the day you're getting a massive free ride by not having kids and not doing your part to avert a demographic catastrophe to the tune of millions of dollars in time and money saved. A few dollars going to the people keeping the country from a demographic collapse is peanuts in comparison.

      • infinite on 18/03/2024 - 19:48
        +3

        While mostly true, they'd achieve a lot more for families if they just reduced all school fee's by $250 instead.

        Because the kids who need this the most are the one's who have a single parent that is gonna blow this payment on booze, smokes, drugs or worse.

        • CheapBrah on 18/03/2024 - 19:58
          +1

          Agree, this also seems like it would cost almost as much in administrating it than is being given out.

        • rokufan on 18/03/2024 - 20:27
          +1

          they'd achieve a lot more for families if they just reduced all school fee's by $250 instead.

          You're thinking too rationally, think like a politician. Making it a permanent fee reduction will only get you an electoral boost once, this way they do it again and again and can time it just before the next election.

        • bargaino on 18/03/2024 - 20:28

          A lot of people don't pay the fees, or have it paid for them. They'd not be happy :)

          • infinite on 21/03/2024 - 17:10

            @bargaino: Who cares about what those with an unemployed lifestyle think?

      • makkapakka on 18/03/2024 - 19:48
        -1

        Um actually some annoying crotch goblin was being noisy during my viewing of the cinematic masterpiece "my little pony: friendship is magic: the movie." So this is wasting my taxes and all the parents will just blow it on CIGS and IPADS

        • CheapBrah on 18/03/2024 - 20:01
          +2

          The ones who will blow it on cigs and iPads already are doing so via Family Tax Benefit A and B and parenting payment and other increased welfare and practically free child care, etc. The people you want having kids get nothing to make having kids more financially viable so good to see something that isn't means tested for a change.

    • Adikp3njahat on 18/03/2024 - 23:00
      +2

      Imagine if these children don't exist. When you are old, fragile and can't walk anymore, there are no young people (nurse, doctors, caretaker) to help take care of you. You will be too weak to do things by yourself and will most likely die sooner than those who were taken care of by the younger generations.

    • R4 on 19/03/2024 - 09:34

      breeders!

      lol!

  • Stingstang on 18/03/2024 - 21:25

    Thanks, but how about fixing the school system and the hospitals while your at it? Trying to buy votes so people know who you are come the next election isn't that impressive.

    • Cunning Linguist on 19/03/2024 - 15:57
      +2

      I'm not sure why you're mad. Both these things have been an absolutely massive agenda focus for the government
      Schools
      As part of the Gonsky report almost $1.6 billion will be invested in West Australian public schools over the next four years through a new state and federal government agreement. The agreement has resulted in the state becoming the first in the country bar the ACT to fully fund each student to 100 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard — the estimate of the minimum amount of funding schools need to meet students’ educational needs.

      Health
      • WA health budget increased significantly, up 33.4 per cent from $8.8 billion in 2016-17 to $11.8 billion in 2023-24.
      • The Mental Health Commission’s annual budget increased by a massive 57.3 per cent, from $863 million in 2016-17 to $1.4 billion in 2023-24.
      • Western Australia has the highest per capita spending of any State on our hospitals, 18 per cent above the national average.
      • In the past two years, 547 new beds have been added to the system – the equivalent of a new tertiary hospital.
      • $3 billion will be spent over 2022-23 to 2026-27 on health infrastructure, adding a further 600 plus beds.
      • In the past three years, Health’s workforce has increased by 22 per cent including an additional 1,784 nursing and 779 medical FTE

      • infinite on 22/03/2024 - 17:26
        -1

        • Western Australia has the highest per capita spending of any State on our hospitals, 18 per cent above the national average.

        LOL, that's because they closed a hospital and shuttered sections of others, then re-directed a small portion of the costs of running those former state assets as "new additional health spending".

        $3 billion will be spent over 2022-23 to 2026-27 on health infrastructure, adding a further 600 plus beds.

        Also LOL, the WA govt have been making that promise every year and always failing to deliver on it for years now: https://thewest.com.au/politics/state-government-falls-short…

  • Drakesy on 18/03/2024 - 22:17
    -4

    Inflation go brrrrr

    Thank god those sending their kids to private schools get a huge $250 helping.

    Might pay for their gucci schoolbag

    • Adikp3njahat on 18/03/2024 - 23:02
      +2

      You can't even buy gucci bag for $250 anymore lol.

      • cobknob on 19/03/2024 - 03:11

        Bullshit! Try Aliexpress with Clear's discount or Temu - I never said it was gonna be real though :p

  • bondy28 on 19/03/2024 - 00:33

    I'm interested to know how separated parents claim this for a child.

    • aacheney on 19/03/2024 - 00:35

      I have joint custody of my children, who is eligible to claim the payment?
      Where possible, parents and carers should discuss between themselves which party will lodge the claim.

      Those with joint custody are both eligible to make a claim, however, only one payment is available for each eligible student.

      Duplicate payments will not be made.

      A payment will be made to an eligible claim that progresses through to the final approval phase first.

      • bondy28 on 19/03/2024 - 01:02
        +1

        So lodge first? 😅

        • aacheney on 19/03/2024 - 01:27

          Your call i just copied it from the site

    • infinite on 22/03/2024 - 17:29
      -3

      Like many of these payments, it's a case of "first in best dressed". Centrelink and other agencies will often only send out communications about the payments to the mother of a registered child though, even if they don't have custody.

  • cobknob on 19/03/2024 - 03:26
    +1

    Another WA bonus not means tested. How the fuk does this help the people that really need it.

    I need to seek political asylum from these politicial assholes making bad decisions for the economy and the state.

    • liam2040 on 19/03/2024 - 04:29

      Don't worry mate, rest easy knowing that every single member of the Legislative Council in the next government will be there to be your representative …..

    • kben on 20/03/2024 - 18:29
      -1

      means testing just results in the government spending $250/h on solicitors to go over all the appeals from people in the means testing grey areas. cheaper to just hand out the money to anyone with kids.

  • rdstuffrob on 19/03/2024 - 10:12

    I'm going to skip this $150 for my primary school student - just to avoid using the amazingly awful WA government COVID app they're using to hand out this money.
    Enter your childs digital identity into a old broken unmaintained app and we'll give you some money!

    • BuzzBuzzBuzz on 19/03/2024 - 10:36
      +3

      AFAIK the actual identification bit is handled by myGovID.

    • marbss on 19/03/2024 - 20:56
      +2

      what the heck is this digital ID it talks about. I don't want to give them anything more….

      • cmoddoo on 20/03/2024 - 01:46
        +2

        Sign up bribe

  • splicer on 21/03/2024 - 17:51
    +1

    Cool, this will make up for the $1k that got taken away from me at Tax Time!

    Oh wait, 3 kids… no it doesn't.

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