If your family are in Australia, they can claim healthcare through Medicare, your private health insurance, or the ADF Family Health Program.
Who can get help
Your dependants must have a pre-departure certificate of fitness for their healthcare expenses to be covered.
When the benefit starts and stops
You and your family are posted overseas.
Your posting ends and you return home while your child stays overseas to finish their final year of school.
Your child will not be covered after you return to Australia.
Medical costs
Your dependants are responsible for managing their own healthcare, including arranging appointments and referrals.
You and your family return to Australia from your posting in the Solomon Islands.
Post Administration approves your child to be screened for Zika virus.
After your Medicare benefit, there is a A$40 excess cost for the screening.
Defence will cover this excess cost.
You are posted to the United Kingdom and your partner travels with you.
In the United Kingdom, your partner is prescribed asthma medication by the GP costing A$40.
You’ll get back A$8.40 for the medication.
You’ve paid A$200 for your partner to get physiotherapy overseas.
Your insurance fund estimates A$100 as the cost of the same treatment in Australia.
Defence will pay you back A$100 for the service.
Travel for healthcare
If you live in a hardship location, Assisted Leave Travel can help you get healthcare.
