The National Assistance Card will be available to all people in Australia living with brain injury. The Card will also be trialled for people with autism, intellectual disability and epilepsy who live in Tasmania.
The Brain Injury Association of Tasmania hope that, in the future, the National Assistance Card will be available to all Australian's living with disability and/or health conditions.
People living with brain injury will be able to apply for a National Assistance Card from mid-October 2021.
If you are interested in applying for a Card and/or would like more information, please fill in our Expression of Interest Form .
The National Assistance Card is a personalised card to assist people with disability in the community.
The Card helps cardholders to explain the effects of their brain injury, other disability, or health condition.
Cardholders can use the Card to support them in their everyday activities.
The National Assistance Card will be available to any person in Australia who can provide medical evidence supporting that they live with a brain injury.
The Card will also be trialled for any person in Tasmania who can provide medical evidence supporting that they live with autism, epilepsy and/or intellectual disability.
People will need to apply for a National Assistance Card using a new online application platform.
The National Assistance Card is not available just yet; it will be available to people with brain injury in mid-October.
More information about how to apply for the National Assistance Card will be available on this website soon.
If you would like to apply for a Card or would like more information about the Card, please fill in the Expression of Interest Form.
If you complete our Expression of Interest Form we will send you an email when you can apply for the card.