Tertiary Fares Reimbursement Scheme - interstate

Students living away from home and studying full-time in an interstate tertiary institution or university, may be eligible for help with cost of regular air travel.

To be eligible, your employment status must be non-salaried. This means you must be paid an hourly rate and not be on a salary.

Tertiary Fares Reimbursement Scheme - interstate is towards the cost of travel at the beginning and end of each semester.

Who can apply

The student must have moved interstate from their home in the Northern Territory (NT) to do:

• full-time tertiary studies or
• university level first award course.

Students studying interstate must make sure their course is considered a priority field by the Charles Darwin University (CDU) Standing Committee based on hard to fill jobs in the NT.

Read the student assistance schemes guidelines and procedures PDF (849.5 KB) to find out more about the conditions of allowance.

Who can't apply

Students who receive the following assistance can't claim:

• travel assistance through the following Australian Government 's Services Australia incentives:
  • Youth Allowance
  • Austudy
  • ABSTUDY
• other financial assistance which includes a travel component, including:
  • cadetship
  • scholarship
  • entitlement
  • award
  • allowance
  • other similar assistance.

You can find out more about the Youth Allowance, Austudy and ABSTUDY on the Australian Government's Services Australia website.

How to apply

You need to submit a new application each year.

You must apply by 30 September in the year that you will be making a claim.

To apply for the subsidy, fill in the application.

NT Tertiary Fare Reimbursement Scheme - application PDF (189.9 KB)
NT Tertiary Fare Reimbursement Scheme - application DOCX (75.0 KB)

You must attach proof of your tertiary enrolment to the application.

If your course enrolment changes you must make a new application.

How much you will be reimbursed

• A maximum of 2 return fares per school year may be reimbursed.
• Reimbursement will be calculated at the most direct and economical form of travel available between home and the centre in which the institution is located.
• The reimbursed cost of a regular passenger flight includes the base cost, GST, booking fee and credit card surcharge.
  • The cost of changing booked flights will not be reimbursed.

If travel is by regular passenger flight, you must book travel 4 weeks in advance.

How to make a claim

If your application has been approved, you can make a claim for reimbursement of travel costs.

Reimbursement claims are due by 31 March of the following year.

To apply for a reimbursement, fill in the claim form.

NT Tertiary Fare Reimbursement Scheme - claim form PDF (176.4 KB)
NT Tertiary Fare Reimbursement Scheme - claim form DOCX (64.8 KB)

You must:

• get your claim signed and stamped by an authorising officer at your tertiary institution to confirm your enrolment
• attach evidence of your academic progress
• attach used tickets or the electronic ticket receipt and boarding pass to the claim.

If the boarding passes are lost or misplaced, you will need to attach a statutory declaration.

The declaration must state the student’s:

• name
• flight number
• date and time of travel
• departure and arrival location.

Your claim won't be processed unless you can demonstrate satisfactory progress.

If your progress has been unsatisfactory and there are extenuating circumstances for this, you can include details for review.