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The Student Start-up Scholarship and Relocation Scholarship replace the Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarship (CECS) and the Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarship (CAS). Students receiving CECS and CAS will remain on the previous scholarship schemes but no new students will be eligible under these schemes. Indigenous students will continue to have access to CECS and CAS.
Initial payments of the scholarships commenced in April 2010. In 2010 and 2011 the relocation scholarship was paid at two levels: the initial scholarship amount and the on-going rate.
From 1 January 2012 a new level was introduced for the second and third year an eligible child is studying and eligible for the relocation scholarship.