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Student Financial Assistance

The information and forms provided here are for the use of Tasmanian students and their families when applying for student financial assistance.

Further information on the Student Assistance Scheme (STAS) is available to government schools on the staff Intranet under 'Child Care Youth and Other Services'.

In the main these resources relate to the work of the FFBS Branch. Further resources on this topic may be discovered from the Department's home page.

Guidelines and Procedures

  Accommodation Allowance for Tertiary Students (AATS) -- information on eligibility, benefits, income testing and closing dates for assistance with accommodation expenses of tertiary students who must live away from home. HTML 13KB
  Other Financial Assistance Schemes -- general information and contacts for a variety of other bursaries, concessions, allowances and assistance schemes offered to Tasmanian students.  Includes links to Commonwealth, ABSTUDY, Centrelink and Veteran's Affairs information. HTML 30KB
  Participating Optometrists -- list of optometrists in Tasmania who participate in the Spectacles Assistance Scheme. Word 98KB
  Spectacles Assistance Scheme -- information on eligibility, benefits, income testing and closing dates for assistance in the purchase of standard frames and lenses for full-time students from Kindergarten through to Senior Secondary level. HTML 13KB
  Student Accommodation Allowance for Senior Secondary Students (SAA) -- information on eligibility, benefits and closing dates for assistance with accommodation expenses of Senior Secondary students (eg. year 11,12 or 13) who must live away from home. HTML 12KB
  Student Assistance Scheme (STAS) -- information on eligibility, benefits, income testing and closing dates for assistance to low-income families towards the cost of school levies. HTML 15KB
  Information on ABSTUDY (School Fees Allowance) which is a Commonwealth Funded Allowance paid to schools to assist Indigenous families to meet the cost of school fees levied by an approved education institution for the student.
STAS  2006 Instructions - Producing the STAS Application Registration (Form 8) – 304 for 2006.
STAS - Bulk Set Up - for schools - The Bulk Student Information Modification screen allows users to quickly edit the student records of a number of students, where the same change needs to be made in all the selected student records.  Word 151.5KB

Forms

  Accommodation Allowance for Tertiary Students (AATS) - Application Form -- PDF file, 855KB
  Spectacles Assistance Scheme - Application Form -- PDF file, 79KB
  Student Accommodation Allowance for Senior Secondary Students (SAA) - Application Form -- PDF file, 4MB
  Student Assistance Scheme (STAS) 2006 - Application Form -- PDF file, 109KB