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Rural Financial Counselling
The RFCS provides free, impartial and confidential financial counselling to help farmers, fishers and agriculture-dependent small businesses in their decision making.
While not specifically targeting drought assistance, the RFCS program aims to provide information and support to people in rural Australia by improving access to services.
Rural financial counsellors across Australia
- help clients identify financial and business options
- help clients negotiate with their lenders
- give clients information about Government and other assistance schemes
- refer clients to accountants, agricultural advisers and educational services, and
- refer clients to professionals for succession planning, family mediation and personal counselling.
Rural financial counsellors do not provide financial advice, succession planning or family, emotional or social counselling.
Eligibility Requirements
RFCS clients must be farmers, fishers or agriculture-dependent small businesses.
For more information
Contact details in each state see www.rfcs.gov.au or contact the Office of Rural Financial Counselling on 1800 686 175.
For information relating to recent changes to the RFCS program, read the following fact sheets and media releases:
- New drought assistance measures (fact sheet)
PDF [153kb] - Additional funding for Rural Financial Counselling Services (fact sheet) PDF [123kb]
- Extension to drought assistance (media release 24 October 2006) by former Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry