The Living Away From Home Allowances Scheme (LAFHAS) supports eligible Queensland families whose children need to live away from home to attend a state school or an accredited non-state school.
This may be because the students home is geographically isolated and/or the nearest school is a bypass school (PDF, 293KB).
The scheme provides financial support through 4 allowances:
- Remote Area Tuition Allowance (RATuA)—helps pay tuition fees charged by non-state boarding schools
- Remote Area Travel Allowance (RATrA)—helps pay a student's travel costs between home and boarding school during holidays
- Remote Area Allowance (RAA)—contributes to the cost of boarding at a state high school campus, to complete approved agricultural courses equivalent to and in lieu of Years 11 and 12
- Remote Area Disability Supplement (RADS)—helps with additional boarding costs for students with disability.