You are eligible for the Household Repairs Payment if your primary place of residence or investment rental property has been damaged but not destroyed as a result of the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

A Brumby Government funding boost is giving Victorian children affected by the bushfire access to at least 10 hours of free kindergarten per week.

More than $130 million in donations to the Bushfire Appeal Fund will be distributed to people whose houses were destroyed or partially destroyed by this year's devastating bushfires, the Victorian Bushfire Appeal Fund Advisory Panel Chair John Landy and the Premier John Brumby announced today.

The Australian Government has announced federal assistance for people affected by the fires that have devastated Victoria. Support is available for anyone who has been affected by the fire who meets the criteria. You do not need to be an existing Centrelink customer to receive this assistance.

Those property owners scheduled to pay land tax on properties destroyed by the recent bushfires will have their land tax on those properties effectively waived in a one-off measure to reduce the financial burden from the recent disaster.

The Brumby Labor Government has put in place measures to ensure stamp duty relief for those who lost family homes or vehicles in the fires.

Attorney-General Robert McClelland today announced that the Australian Government would provide $220,000 to Victorian community legal centres to help Victorians affected by the bushfire disaster.

Kind donations from Victoria, interstate and overseas will help people affected by the bushfires with immediate essentials and medical costs, the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the Premier John Brumby and Chair of the Victorian Bushfire Appeal Advisory Panel John Landy AC announced today.