Annual increase to travel allowances

Travel allowances under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (VEA), the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests and British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Treatment) Act 2006 and the Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Act 2019 are increased annually on 1 July in line with the Consumer Price Index. 

The increase applies to the private vehicle kilometre rate, meal and accommodation allowances for eligible Veteran Card holders travelling for treatment, or for disability and income support claims.  

Visit the DVA website for more information. If you want to talk to someone you can: 

  1. Request a call back from us online through MyService. Register or log in to MyService via myGov .
  1. Phone us between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday on 1800 VETERAN (1800 838 372). 

 

 

 

Type of allowance  

Measure  

New allowance from 1 July 2025 

Travel with attendant † 

Private vehicle 

Per kilometre 

44.3 cents 

X1 

Public, community or air transport 

Actual fare 

Actual fare 

X2 

Taxi transport 

Actual fare 

Actual fare 

X1 

Commercial accommodation non capital city – single* 

Per night 

$183.30 

X2 

Commercial accommodation Capital city – 

single* 

Per night 

$217.70 

X2 

Entitled person and attendant – 

commercial accommodation – shared* 

Per night 

$298.10 

X1 

Subsidised accommodation – single* 

Per night 

$114.50 

X2 

Private accommodation – single* 

Per night 

$57.00 

X2 

Meal allowance – more than 50 km but less than 200 km from entitled person’s home to the treatment location 

Per day 

$18.20 

X2 

Meal allowance – more than 200 km from entitled person’s home to the treatment location 

Per day 

$37.10 

X2 

 

* A meal allowance is not paid on a day where an accommodation allowance is paid as a meal component is already built into the accommodation allowance. 

† Refers to the number of times an allowance is paid when an entitled person travels with an attendant.