The Queensland Government offer a 20% subsidy, capped at $200.00 per annum for Rates and Charges excluding Emergency Management Levies and miscellaneous property charges.

The Queensland Fire & Emergency Service offer a 20% subsidy on Emergency Management Levies for eligible properties.

All subsidies are applied on a pro-rata basis should you only be eligible for a portion of the year.

To be eligible, an applicant:

1. Must comply with the eligibility criteria contained in the Scheme and must possess a current valid qualifying concession card, namely a Pensioner Concession Card issued by Centrelink or Department of Veteran Affairs or a Repatriation Health (gold) Card.
2. Must be the owner (either jointly or solely) or be an eligible Life Tenant of a property within the region which is their principal place of residence, AND must have (either solely or jointly with a co-owner), the legal responsibility for payment of rates and charges which are levied in respect of the said property by the Council.
3. Must, if a first time applicant, lodge and complete the prescribed Application/Consent for AND provide Council with a copy of each applicant's Pensioner Concession Card to be entitled to a Pensioner Rate Subsidy.  The information on the Application/Consent form will be used by Council to verify the eligibility of all pensioners listed.  Upon proof, the entitlement to a subsidy will commence from either the start date shown on the card, or the date the property was occupied or the start of the current rating period, which is the latter date.  Such entitlement shall continue until the sale of that property, a relocation, or until the entitlement to a pension ceases to exist.
4. Must, if an existing applicant, lodge a new application on the acquisition of a replacement property within the region.
5. Must not generate any income from the property should the subsidy recipient live in alternative accommodation for medical reasons.  that is, if the pensioner still classes the property as their primary place of resdience but resides with a relaive, in a nursing home or hospital due to ill health, a subsidy may still be paid provided the house is not rented to a third party.  Council may request evidence of this.