Financial help for isolated students

The following schemes are available if your child attends a school of the air or other distance education school within the Northern Territory (NT):

• correspondence site allowance
• correspondence site allowance - preschool
• correspondence materials delivery assistance scheme
• School of the Air functions allowance.

The following schemes are available if your child has to live away from home to attend school:

• isolated students education allowance for boarding institutions
• mid term travel scheme
• remote area travel allowance
• student travel scheme
• supplementary boarding allowance
• interstate boarding allowance.

The tertiary fares reimbursement scheme is available if your child attends university or higher education away from home in the NT.

The scheme also applies if your child attends interstate university or higher education.

In order to qualify for some NT student assistance schemes, you must first be approved for assistance under the Australian Government's Assistance for Isolated Children scheme (AIC) or ABSTUDY schemes.

Read more about Australian Government assistance schemes.

Applications must be submitted to the department by 30 September of each year.

Claims can be made once your application has been approved.

Claims must be made by 31 March of the following year eg for the 2015 application year claims must be made by 31 March 2016.

Late applications will only be accepted under exceptional circumstances.

Go to the individual schemes pages for application and claim details.

You can find out more by contacting the Department of Education student assistance officer.

Student assistance officer
Financial Services Division
Department of Education

GPO Box 4821
Darwin NT 0801

Phone: 1800 019 157 or 08 8901 4965
Fax: 08 8901 4976
studentassistance.det@nt.gov.au