When applying for help paying bond or rent
If you're applying for help paying bond or rent, you need to provide 100 points of identity.
In special circumstances, Housing SA may accept other forms of identification provided it includes name, address, signature and a photograph.
For any other Housing SA service
Your proof of identity must be current.
You can provide either of these:
- one form of photographic identity
- two forms of written identity.
100 points of identity
You can use any one of these for 100 points of identity:
- passport
- driver’s licence
- proof of age card
50 points each of identity
Each of these is 50 points each of identity:
- Australian birth certificate
- Australian citizenship certificate
- student or employee ID
- change of name certificate
- marriage certificate
- Medicare card
- Centrelink concession or health care card
- certificate of registration by descent
- ImmiCard
- a letter from your employer, apprenticeship papers or tradesperson’s certificate
- school reports or exam certificate
- immigration papers or other documents from the Department of Home Affairs
- State Government concession card
- prison discharge certificate
- life insurance policies
- Australian Visa
- birth extract
- divorce papers
- naturalisation certificate
- letter from an Aboriginal Community showing the common seal
- letter from an authorised officer from the Department for Child Protection, a medical or legal practitioner, or a minister of religion
- current bank, credit union or building society card.
25 points each of identity
Each of these is 25 points each of identity:
- a current statement from a financial institution - eg bank, credit union
- electoral enrolment card
- insurance renewal documents that aren’t for health insurance
- utility account
- rent records less than six months old
- security licence
- senior’s card
- motor vehicle registration
- Veterans’ Affairs Gold Card.
Attachment guidelines
When attaching proof of income and identity, please ensure that the files:
- are a combined size of under ten megabytes (10 MB) and no more than five files per income
- are one of the following, .pdf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .bmp, .png, .gif
- have names that do not exceed 80 characters
- are not compressed. If a document file is too large, try converting it to a PDF to reduce the size.
