No Interest Loan Scheme loans can be used for the purchase of essential goods and services up to $2,000, or up to $3,000 for housing related expenses such as bond or rent in advance, or for recovery from a natural disaster.

You can access your super early in very limited circumstances, including to pay certain expenses on compassionate grounds, as well as terminal illness, incapacity, and severe financial hardship.

Provides support to current and former serving members and their families through a range of benefits.

Carer Allowance is a supplementary payment if you care for someone who needs daily support.

Offer subsidised or free (where possible) accommodation to regional and rural patients with a blood cancer diagnosis, and their families when travelling to a major city hospital such as Sydney and Newcastle.

The financial counselling service offers support to people who are having difficulty managing their finances.

Dreams2Live4 makes dreams come true for patients who are living with metastatic cancer (meaning any cancer which has spread), relapsed lymphoma, relapsed leukaemia, and high-grade brain tumours.

Riverina based, provides emotional and financial support to country families who have a child diagnosed with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

Together with The Superheroes Foundation, Peace of Mind fund small financial grants for brain cancer patients and their families that are experiencing financial difficulty.

Available across the Riverina, Meals on Wheels provides ‘nutritious meals, wellness checks and peace of mind’.  

The Carevan Wagga Incorporated project seeks to address current community concerns about the level of homelessness, disadvantage, social isolation, and food insecurity in Australia, and especially in the community of Wagga Wagga.

Provides immediate support with food, groceries, clothing, and other everyday essentials. This includes food parcels and Christmas hampers (with application).

Low-cost pantry items available, component of Doorways Program, free items that have been donated and low-cost items bought by the Salvos for resale.

Ongoing or short-term care and support services, for low level needs (up to one or two services) including help with housework, personal care, meals and food preparation, transport, shopping, allied health, social support, and planned respite (giving a carer a break).

Support for older people with complex care needs, there are four levels of consumer directed coordinated packages that you can be assessed for through an Aged Care Assessment (by My Aged Care).

Home Care services can be arranged privately through any provider that has capability for a fee for service.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides support for people with disability, their families, and carers in Australia.

Provides short term support for NSW carers, so that family members can stay at home.

Occupational therapists provide care to people in hospital, multipurpose residential care and in a person’s home.