If you already get a Centrelink payment, you don’t need to contact them to get additional payments. This includes the two lump sum $750 Economic Support Payments to support households and the $550 additional Coronavirus Supplement. This will happen as part of your usual payment. You can’t nominate a particular day to get your payment.
Economic Support Payments: FIRST LUMP SUM PAYMENT
Centrelink will pay you $750 from 31 March 2020 if you’re getting an eligible payment on any day between 12 March to 13 April 2020. To be eligible for the first payment, you must be residing in Australia and getting one of the following payments, or hold one of the following concession cards, at any time from 12 March 2020 to 13 April 2020: