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Output Group 4: Community assistance
 
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The purpose of this Output Group is to administer arrangements that provide targeted community support and subsidised assistance to various segments of the community.

Budget Output 4.1:
Bass Strait Islands Community Service Obligation

We manage the Community Service Obligation payment that subsidises the supply of electricity to customers who live on the Bass Strait Islands and provides concessions for those pensioner customers on the islands.

Budget Output 4.2:

Public Trustee Community Service Obligation

We also administer the Community Service Obligation payment to The Public Trustee, which provides assistance for the administration of:

  • Absolute Estates with a gross asset value of less than $60 000;
  • Continuing Trust and Life Tenancy Estates with a gross asset value of less than $100 000;
  • Minor Trusts with a gross asset value of less than $20 000; and
  • Assets for Represented Persons with a gross asset value of less than $100 000.

Budget Output 4.3:
Community Support Levy

The Revenue, Gaming and Licensing Division collects the Community Support Levy funds. Each year these funds are distributed to assist in the prevention of compulsive gambling, the treatment or rehabilitation of compulsive gamblers, community education and other health services. They are also distributed to charitable, sport, and recreation organisations. The Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts provide administrative support to these grant programs.

Budget Output 4.4:
Payment to Anzac Day Trust and Royal Society of Tasmania

We pay the annual contribution to the Anzac Day Trust in accordance with the provisions of the Anzac Day Observance Act 1929. The funds are disbursed by the Trust to returned services organisations to assist in providing welfare benefits for eligible members and families.

We also manage payments made to the Royal Society of Tasmania to assist with printing of its papers.
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