Northam Support Services

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Below is a list of financial services, including financial counselling, planning and advice services. If you can’t find local financial support services for your area, there is a list of state and national financial support services at the bottom of this page.

Share & Care Community Services Group – Financial Counsellor Program

Financial Counsellor offers:

Assistance with developing budgets that cater to individual’s needs
Negotiation with creditors including debt collection agencies
Bankruptcy issues, information and assistance
Community education
Mortgage stress and threatened foreclosure
Advocacy and negotiation on your behalf where requested

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Share and Care Community Services – Suicide Bereavement Service

This program offers assistance to families who have experienced the loss of a loved one through suicide:

Assistance to families in the home with support services, caring for children whilst appointments are being attended
Assistance with travel and daily living costs if required
Assistance with referrals to free counselling (Psychologists), financial counselling and legal services
Referrals to other agencies that may assist with other needs
Assistance with Information
Other supports and information services as required

This service covers the Wheatbelt.

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Share and Care Community Services – The Men’s Lodge

The Lodge is designed to provide safe secure accommodation to Homeless men from age 18+. Men accommodated in the Lodge can expect to receive assistance with a range of services including:

Employment opportunities,
Mentoring,
Referrals to agencies such as Drug & Alcohol,
Centrelink,
Financial Counselling,
Department of Housing and assistance with immediate needs such as food, housing, medical, clothing etc.

Referrals from DCP, other agencies and self referrals accepted.

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Share and Care Community Services – Homeless Support Service

This service is designed to assist those that are threatened with losing their homes due to financial difficulties, those who are homeless and need support to obtain and maintain long term housing and those who are finding it challenging to remain in one home for any extended amount of time.

This service networks closely with the Department of Housing, Emergency Relief services and Financial Counsellors, Supported Housing services through Avon Youth, our Men’s Lodge and other local agencies.

This service covers the Wheatbelt.

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Northam Service Centre

Services staff can help you with:

Centrelink

Services you can access using self-service terminals:

Medicare
Centrelink
Child Support

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Country Financial Direction

Provides various kind of financial services. Services include :

Budgeting
Investments
Superannuation
Self Managed Super Funds
Retirement Planning, Estate Planning
Creating Wealth
Insurances
Debt Management Analysis
Cash-flow coaching.

They provide personal service and advice which is tailored to your specific needs.

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Kaata-Koorliny Employment & Enterprise Development Corporation (KEEDAC)

KEEDAC can help their clients with paying their court fines via a Work and Development Permit (WDP). Their clients could reduce or clear their fines by doing activities in place of paying the amount owed. KEEDAC works with the Aboriginal Legal Service WA (ALSWA) to provide this service.

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State and National Financial Services Services

Australian Red Cross – Family and Domestic Violence Program – Migration Support

The Family and Domestic Violence program is available to all people on temporary visas or with uncertain visa status, experiencing family and domestic violence and in need of financial support. Under the year-long pilot program, we will be providing up to $3,000 in financial assistance to people who are eligible to help cover expenses such as accommodation, food, and medical care.

You can apply online.

If you need support to complete your application, you can download a step-by-step guide.

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Your Toolkit

The Financial Toolbox Women provides support to women and their children facing, or having faced, domestic violence and/or financial abuse. The Your Toolkit team does not provide direct support to individuals, but the website provides details for contacting support services and help lines and women’s refuges.

The website includes information on:

• Checklist of documents you need to take with you when leaving a relationship
• How can your bank or financial advisor help if you are preparing to leave?
• Centrelink support payments and services
• Financial assistance for living costs
• Tenancy Information and Laws

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WAConnect

WAConnect is a free directory for service providers, and people looking for assistance. Users can search for food relief, financial counsellors, and emergency accommodation, among other services, and get a list of services that can provide assistance in the location that is convenient.

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Services Australia – Crisis Payment

A one-off payment if you’ve experienced an extreme circumstance and are in severe financial hardship.

To get any of these payments, you must meet all of the following:

• Be in severe financial hardship
• Get, or, be eligible for an income support payment or ABSTUDY Living Allowance
• Be experiencing an extreme circumstance.

To be eligible, you must be experiencing 1 of the following:

• You or someone you’re caring for are required to quarantine or self-isolate due to COVID-19
• You’ve experienced an incident of family and domestic violence
• You’ve had to leave your home because of a natural or other disaster not covered by a disaster relief payment
• You’ve arrived in Australia as a Humanitarian Entrant for the first time
• You were released from prison or psychiatric confinement.

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Services Australia – Farm Household Allowance

A payment for farming families in financial hardship. To get this you must:

be a farmer or partner of a farmer, who spends a major part of your time and capital, working on the farm
meet the income and assets test limits
meet mutual obligation requirements. To get Farm Household Allowance (FHA) you must meet all the following:
be a farmer or partner of a farmer
be 16 years or older
contribute labour and capital to an Australian farm, or are the partner of a farmer who does
have income and assets below certain amounts
have had less than 4 years of FHA in the specific 10-year period.

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Rural West

Rural Financial Counselling Services WA (RFCS WA) services are available to:

All types of farming including livestock, grain, fruit and vegetables
Professional fishing
Forestry
Small rural businesses that support these industries, such as fencing, harvesting, spraying or stock management contracting.

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No Interest Loan Scheme

No Interest Loans (NILS) provide individuals and families on low incomes with access to safe, fair and affordable credit.

Loans are available for essential goods and services such as fridges, washing machines, car repairs and medical procedures for up to $1,500. Repayments are set at an affordable amount over 12 to 18 months.

Am I eligible?

• I have a Health Care Card / Pension Card or earn less than $45,000 a year after tax ($60,000 for couples or people with dependants)
• I have lived at my current or previous address for at least 3 months
• I can show that I have a capacity to repay the loan

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National Debt Hotline

National Debt Helpline is a not-for-profit service that helps people tackle their debt problems. Their professional financial counsellors offer a free, independent and confidential service.

The website provides information on:

• Your rights
• Risk of using credit
• Managing your debt
• Seeking extra funds
• Extreme financial difficulties

Live chat with a financial counsellor Weekdays 9:30am – 4:30pm. You can send a message outside these hours and a financial counsellor will get back to you.

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MoneySmart

We’re committed to helping Australians of all ages, backgrounds and incomes to increase their financial well-being and build a better life. The website provides guidance on:

• Banking and Budgeting
• Loans, Credit and Debt
• Investing and Planning
• Super and Retirement
• Insurance

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CWA of WA Sir James Mitchell Fund

The Sir James Mitchell Fund is used to assist those who may need a helping hand. Applications for assistance are considered on an individual basis and are completely confidential. Assistance is in the form of IGA food cards, health expenses and other general assistance. It does not assist with whitegoods, rental bonds and arrears, utility bills (electricity, gas, water etc), car registration/maintenance, travel or funeral expenses.

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Citizens Advice Bureau

Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) provide information and referral, a low-cost legal advice service on a wide range of issues, and a mediation service.

Their services include:

Free information on a wide range of issue
Low-cost Legal Advice
Low-cost mediation and dispute resolution
Free Tax Help (July – October)
Assistance with WA NILS (No Interest Loan Scheme) Applications
Justice of the Peace
Probate Assistance
Preparation of Family Court documents
Letters of Administration
Wills
Enduring Powers of Attorney
Enduring Powers of Guardianship

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Vinnies – National Debt Helpline

Vinnies operates the National Debt Helpline in Western Australia. Trained financial counsellors provide free advice to help move on. If the matter is complex, they can refer to the closest face to face financial counselling service.

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Uniting WA

Family violence
Paying the costs of moving to safety.
The Escaping Violence Payment (EVP) Program is available for people 18+ who have recently experienced family violence, have a changed living situation and are experiencing financial stress.
Please go to the Uniting WA website for more information.

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Australian Government – Services Australia

Support through payments and services while you are looking for work or doing approved studies to help you find and keep a job.

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