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School Saving Bonus

Information for government school parents and carers 

Actions for parents and carers 

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 helps families cover the cost of uniforms, textbooks, excursions, activities and more.  If you would like to use your bonus for school activities, you can allocate some or all of the bonus using the School Saving Bonus online system.

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.

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:

Who receives the School Saving Bonus 

The School Saving Bonus is available for parents and carers of all Victorian government school students from Prep to Year 12 in 2025, except for full-fee international students, home schooled students, TAFE students and students attending kindergarten in 2025.