Program · Outcome 1: Maintain and enhance the financial wellbeing and self-sufficiency of eligible personsand their dependants through access to income support, compensation, and other supportservices, including advice and information about entitlements
Program 1.5: Veterans' Children Education Scheme
Under the Veterans’ Children Education Scheme and the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act Education and Training Scheme, education allowances are paid to eligible children of ADF members who have died or been severely injured as a result of service. The schemes provide financial assistance, student support services, guidance and counselling for eligible students undertaking primary, secondary and tertiary full-time study within Australia.
Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 45 reported
$17m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$929k (−5.1%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $18m | $17m | −$929k −5.1% | reported | x_Table 2.1.1 - Outcome 1, row 350 |