If you’re about to apply for a Centrelink benefit such as the age pension or Commonwealth Senior Health Care Card, you’re going to play a game called Centrelink Snakes and Ladders… The purpose of this is to suggest some tips to finding more ladders and fewer snakes. The difficulty with a Centrelink application tutorial is that everyone's experience in applying for a benefit is different and subject to so many personal variables, let alone the complexities of the system itself. There’s a reason why so many clients prefer to simply pay us to help them with the system barriers, jargon, enormous time delays and hair pulling stress that can be avoided!