The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, announced arrangements for payment of the one-off $950 Training and Learning Bonus payment to eligible postgraduate scholarship students. The one-off $950 Training and Learning Bonus is being extended to help certain postgraduate scholarship recipients under an administrative scheme, in addition to current student income support recipients and recipients of other income support payments returning to study or training who are already being paid the bonus. DEEWR Media release, 24 April 2009