[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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WesthamAreMassive on 28/04/2025 - 12:29 education.wa.edu.au (637 clicks)
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I'm not a fan of this, I'd rather the money be used on the health system or something more needed but this may help a few people out.

The WA Student Assistance Payment helps parents and carers with the cost-of-living pressures associated with sending their children to school.

The second round of the payment is now open, with claim submissions available through the ServiceWA app.

All Western Australian school students in Kindergarten to Year 12, with a valid WA student number (WASN), are eligible for this cost-of-living payment.

You can claim $250 for each secondary student and $150 for students attending primary school or Kindergarten.

To claim the payments, parents and carers are encouraged to set up a ServiceWA account. More information is available at wa.gov.au/servicewaapp

All claims must be received by Friday 4 July 2025.

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Comments

  • BuzzBuzzBuzz on 28/04/2025 - 12:35
    +21

    I'm not a fan of this, I'd rather the money be used on the health system or something more needed

    17% of children in Western Australia live in poverty. Almost 1 in 5.

    • senectus on 28/04/2025 - 12:48
      +2

      f… thats a bad stat.

    • happydude on 28/04/2025 - 13:00
      +4

      So target those kids.

      I don't need it.

      • BuzzBuzzBuzz on 28/04/2025 - 13:14
        +13

        Don't claim it then.

        How would you propose the state government (which has no access to tax data) accomplish this?

        People are crying out for cost of living relief. This is what that looks like at a state level.

        Damned if you do…

        • TheFreaK on 28/04/2025 - 13:22

          What stops this student relief payment from being misused or misappropriated by parents?

          • ccir on 28/04/2025 - 13:29
            +6

            @TheFreaK: In third world countries, the politicians go around distributing blankets and opening buffets in front of polling booths with their faces plastered everywhere.

            They don't give a crap about misuse. They just know what works for masses. I've tried talking to my friends and colleagues about mining tax, fossil fuel subsidies, Mark McGowan taking a job at Woodside after resigning from his govt role, gas exports and taxation. But they just want to talk about electricity and back to school handouts.

            • TheFreaK on 28/04/2025 - 13:31
              +1

              @ccir: It's a lot harder to misuse food or blankets than an open cheque

              • ccir on 28/04/2025 - 13:32

                @TheFreaK: Yeah I'm agreeing with you. They don't care if it's misused. They only care about what's the most efficient way to stay in power.

          • Make it so on 28/04/2025 - 13:34
            +5

            @TheFreaK: How would you misappropriate it? Do you know what it costs to send a kid to school? When you offset this payment against those costs, it is but a drop in the ocean.

            • happydude on 28/04/2025 - 14:07
              -1

              @Make it so: $150 a week for kindergarten kid that I'm paying $400+ a week for.

              $150 is a rounding error by the end of the year.

          • Protractor on 28/04/2025 - 16:59

            @TheFreaK: You cynic.

          • hotphil on 28/04/2025 - 17:05
            +1

            @TheFreaK: nothing. i had to get a new car battery yesterday. i guess this pays for it.

            but yeah, a fair amount of it will go on Emu Export and horrific premix.

        • happydude on 28/04/2025 - 13:51
          -1

          I didn't last time.

          However, if I don't it doesn't get reallocated to someone in need. It's just retained by the government to be wasted elsewhere.

    • caustic birch on 28/04/2025 - 14:09

      By what definition?

      • BuzzBuzzBuzz on 28/04/2025 - 14:36
        +1

        The stat comes from here, if you're genuinely interested.

        • caustic birch on 28/04/2025 - 15:15

          Looks like children living in a household where the income is less than half the median income, for the nation I'm guessing

    • alexdagr8 on 28/04/2025 - 20:16
      -2

      Shouldn’t have voted Roger Cook and we wouldn’t be in this mess

  • yht on 28/04/2025 - 12:49

    Thanks for reminder. Lodged it now

  • MauTauAja on 28/04/2025 - 13:57

    Thanks Op

  • Vancomycin 1000mg on 28/04/2025 - 15:04
    +1

    I work for Perth metro hospitals. Over the easter period we didnt have allied health for the entire period because of wage cuts. We had patients who desperatly needed physios, OT, speech review and social worker to solve their housing issues. So what happened ? These patients sat for four days in the wards occupying beds that sick people in ED or ramped up ambo could use.

    The states biggest hospitals Charlies and Royal Perth is always in code yellow. Quality of care is poor but because these government wants easy election votes they give away money to kids.

    Another issue is that a vaste majority of people have dropped of their health insurance because of increased cost of living adding more pressure on public system

    • greennick on 28/04/2025 - 15:35

      What do you mean when you say the vast majority of people have dropped their insurance? In the Dec 24 quarter general treatment policies went up by 170k.

    • Protractor on 28/04/2025 - 17:02
      +2

      Overpopulation has come home to roost. Not just in the health system.
      There's plenty of ppl who cash in on going the ED to avoid paying a GP. Immigrants especially love that hack.

      • tenpercent on 28/04/2025 - 20:14

        Immigrants especially love that hack.

        aww muh gawd that is so rayyysist /s

  • Areyouabus on 28/04/2025 - 15:11
    +1

    Damn that app gets a lot of access to your personal information on your phone

    • reunite ashes chop on 28/04/2025 - 16:34
      +2

      Complete the online form instead https://www.education.wa.edu.au/wasap/claim
      It still needs you to submit your personal details and upload 100 points of identification.

    • hotphil on 28/04/2025 - 17:10
      +2

      Yep, there's quite a few people that see it for what it is - a carrot to get better uptake of the app. Which leads to some pretty wild conspiracy theories.

      This time round it looks like they're making it a bit easier to access alternative methods. Which may allay some of the "but I can't use the app" cries. Although I see a few "I don't have 100 points of ID because I lost it and didn't get it replaced. Why won't the government just give me hundreds of dollars without proof of who I am? I am being discriminated against". That kind of thing. Some people are determined to live life on hard mode.

  • Steven123 on 28/04/2025 - 15:34

    For some reason, I cannot find or have my kid WA school ID as my kid is at kindy school.

    • FeZZa21 on 28/04/2025 - 15:42

      get the student# from the school

  • moo on 28/04/2025 - 15:49
    +3

    Parents will probably use it to fund their Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order!!

  • baggyred on 28/04/2025 - 16:52

    Anyone got a bargain for $650?

    Maybe 1 hour less ambo ramping

  • Lois Price on 28/04/2025 - 17:22
    +4

    To anyone who doesn’t like this / is complaining about it not being means tested / says they don’t need it, then:
    - just don’t claim it (so the money is retained to be spent or otherwise wasted elsewhere); or
    - claim it and donate an equivalent amount to your charity of choice (and feel self-righteous about yourself).

    • tenpercent on 28/04/2025 - 20:16
      -1

      Or vote better next time.

      • Lois Price on 28/04/2025 - 22:05

        This option is not mutually exclusive of the above two. In fact, you can vote worse or not at all next time and do either of the above.

        • tenpercent on 28/04/2025 - 22:05

          You are correct. I ought to have said "And vote better next time"

          • Lois Price on 28/04/2025 - 22:08

            @tenpercent: That’s your subjective opinion. Oppo are an amateurish mess in WA is mine.

            • tenpercent on 28/04/2025 - 22:12

              @Lois Price: There are other options. As the upper house results showed.

              • Lois Price on 29/04/2025 - 09:45

                @tenpercent: Let’s be honest. Only one other viable option - which is actually how I voted for the LC.

    • Protractor on 28/04/2025 - 20:36

      I had conservative rellos who hate the ALP with a passion, but they all took the $900 Wayne Swan handed out during the GFC and pissed it up against the wall on crap.After months of swearing they'd never take it, it was a bribe,blood money, end of the world etc.
      I expect the same will happen with this assistance.

      • tenpercent on 28/04/2025 - 22:07
        +1

        Plot twist… the rellos were taxpayers so the $900 was basically just a partial refund.

        • Protractor on 28/04/2025 - 22:11

          Tell them,not me

      • moo on 29/04/2025 - 10:07

        The temptation of a good deal or 'free' money is too hard to resist for many..principles or not.

        • Protractor on 29/04/2025 - 10:10

          I agree, but there's principles, and then there's rank hypocrisy.

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