FULLY SUBSIDISED AIDS FOR, PENSIONERS & VETERANS
FULLY SUBSIDISED AIDS FOR PENSIONERS & VETERANS
Australian pension card holders are lucky to benefit from one of the world’s most progressive hearing services programs. Our government understand the individual, social and financial burden of hearing loss and have created a scheme to ensure that seniors, pensioners and veterans can access fully subsidised hearing services and digital hearing aids through accredited providers.
Who is eligible?
- Centrelink Pensioner Concession Card
- Gold Health Repatriation Card
- White Health Repatriation Card (specifying hearing loss)
- Centrelink Sickness Allowance
You may also be eligible if you are
- A dependent of a person in one of the above categories
- An active member of the Defence Force
- A client of CRS Australia
Additionally, the program supports the following groups. However, they must be seen at the government hearing care provider, Australian hearing:
- Australian citizens under 26-years of age
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders over 50 years of age
Services you will receive
Eligible seniors, pensioners and veterans can obtain a range of products and services to meet your needs, many of which are entirely subsidised:
- Your hearing assessed by a qualified audiologist at Hearing Wizard, at no cost.
- If the assessment indicates that a hearing aid or other device would assist you, we will help you select a model from a range of quality hearing aid manufacturers – some of the devices are FREE of charge. If not the federal government will subsidise part of the cost, so pensioners and veterans have full access to more advanced solutions.
- We will train and counsel you in ways to obtain the maximum benefit from your hearing devices, at no cost.
- You can obtain a maintenance contract from us for your hearing aids, which also covers you for hearing aid batteries. The maintenance is heavily subsidised by the federal government so that your annual contribution is minimal.
