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Financial Support

I speak little English and need help dealing with Centrelink

Government payments & concessions access

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Centrelink Multilingual Phone Line (Services Australia)

Government serviceAustralia-wide

Talk to Centrelink about your payments, crisis payment, special benefit, or advance payment in your own language, at no cost for the interpreter.

No public street address - national phone service, available to all Victorians

Services Australia - Financial Information Service (FIS)

Government serviceAustralia-wide

A free, independent Centrelink service where FIS Officers help you understand payments, concessions, advances, and managing money, by phone, video, or in person, with interpreters available.

132 300

say 'Financial Information Service'

No public street address - appointments at local service centres plus phone and video, operates nation-wide

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Directory last reviewed 7 September 2026.

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