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School Saving Bonus

School Saving Bonus reminder and allocation to school activities

The Victorian Government is delivering the School Saving Bonus (SSB) – a one-off support of $400 for eligible government school students from Prep to Year 12 in 2025.

 

The SSB can be used for uniforms and textbooks until Monday 30 June 2025.

 

Any funds remaining after 30 June 2025, including online voucher amounts that have not been redeemed, will become a credit to use on school activities. However, the credit will not be available on your family account at our school until late July.

 

To use any remaining SSB funds to cover the cost of school activities in July, please refer to the SSB online system and allocate the funds to school activities before 30 June 2025.

To learn more about the SSB online system, download the step-by-step System guide for parents and carers (DOCX, 945KB) or watch this School Saving Bonus video. System guide translations are also available in 14 languages.

 

The Department of Education’s SSB contact centre will remain available until 30 June 2025. The contact centre can be reached by:

After this date, please contact our administration team for any SSB related questions.

Compass

Unfortunately, Compass does not have a function to select the use of SSB for payment of activities on events. 

 

The first step is to select Allocate to School Activities within your portal.  It can take a couple of days before it appears at School for allocation so please be mindful of this with upcoming incursions and excursions.

 

Families who want to use School Savings Bonus (SSB) for upcoming activities, and have allocated ‘activities’ in the portal, please email your request to Fabian fabian.harcus@education.vic.gov.au

 

Please include the following information:

  • Your child’s full name Event / excursion name
  • When the SSB has been processed the amount will be zeroed and parents will then be able to complete consent in Compass.

Uniform orders

To use the SSB for uniform orders please complete the fillable form (including your SSB number that starts with 1494) and return it to the school. 

 

The School runs a recognised shop and must process uniform orders in the “shop portal”.  Do not select State Schools Relief (SSR) within your portal for uniform.  Orders received up to 4.00 pm on Thursdays will be processed on Fridays (stock dependent) and sent home with children.  If there is a large number of orders, deliveries might not go home until the following Monday.

More information

To learn more about the SSB online system, download the step-by-step System guide for parents and carers (DOCX, 945KB) or watch this School Saving Bonus video. System guide translations are also available in 14 languages.

 

The Department of Education has established a dedicated contact centre to support the SSB. The contact centre can be reached by: