Australia-wide
PBS Safety Net family combination
Families may be able to combine eligible PBS medicine costs so they reach the PBS Safety Net threshold sooner.
- Estimated value
- Value depends on your family's PBS medicine costs.
- Jurisdiction
- Australia-wide
- Category
- Medical
- Official source
- Services Australia
Who this may suit
Families who use PBS medicines and may benefit from having eligible family medicine costs counted together.
Plain-English explanation
The PBS Safety Net is a medicine-cost threshold. Combining eligible family members can help a household reach the threshold sooner, after which some PBS medicines may cost less for the rest of the calendar year.
Eligibility signals
These signals come from MoneyFinder's current Alpha pathway for this opportunity. They are not an official eligibility decision, and official source details prevail.
You told us your household includes a spouse, de facto partner or dependant children.
You said someone in your family gets medicines through the PBS.
You said your family's PBS medicine costs are not already being combined.
Official source information
- Source title
- PBS Safety Net
- Organisation
- Services Australia
- Checked by MoneyFinder Alpha
- 2026-06-30
- Key assumption
- No fixed dollar value is displayed because PBS Safety Net savings depend on eligible prescriptions and household spending.
Services Australia explains the PBS Safety Net and how eligible family medicine costs can be counted together.
View official sourceCheck your situation
Start the existing Alpha questionnaire to see how this opportunity appears alongside the other supported opportunities. Results are indicative and may require follow-up with the official source.
Launch the eligibility questionnaire