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NEW
SOUTH
WALES SENIORS TRA VEL
NEWS

NSW Regional

Seniors Travel

Card Goes Live!

Applications for the NSW In total, there are around benefit is set to further expand
Regional Seniors Travel Card 400,000 eligible applicants to include veterans and war
opened on 29 January 2020 across NSW. widows in the next three
and since then around more months, as more eligible
than 100,000 rural and senior This initiative of the applicants from regional NSW
applicants have signed up for government will provide much start applying, receiving and
the travel card with thousands needed assistance to the using the travel cards.
more applying every day. seniors in rural, regional and
remote NSW. This initiative of the NSW
The eligible rural and senior government will be of great
applicants will soon be Based on applications till now, assistance to the seniors and
receiving their cards, which the utilisation of Regional to the overall economy of
could be used by them Seniors Travel Card is expected regional, rural and remote
at certain retailers across to overall inject around $25 NSW, which has been terribly
Australia, and to pay for fuel, million to the regional and impacted by the recent
taxis as well as pre-booked rural NSW economy. bushfires and floods.
NSW TrainLink regional trains
and coaches. It is understood that this

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