Member for Euroa Annabelle Cleeland met with representatives of Services Australia to discuss ongoing accessibility difficulties local across the electorate have.
Services Australia responsibilities include payments for Centrelink, Medicare, child support, aged-care pensions, and veteran services, however they have minimal facilities across the electorate despite increasing demand.
Currently Seymour is the only town within the electorate with a Services Australia centre.
Ms Cleeland said the meeting with Services Australia’s Robert Williams was constructive and both committed to more meetings with community members and local providers to understand how access to these services could be improved.
“The reality is that several people in our local communities require support when it comes to Centrelink payments, Medicare and many more services,” she said.
“At the moment, there are questions to be asked as to whether these people can access this support effectively in towns across the region.
“The agent and access points that towns have offer limited support and are not specialised in all areas of Services Australia support.”
