Claiming your portable long service

Accruing portable long service entitlements

Each quarter your employers provide the Portable Long Service Authority with the hours you worked. These service hours count towards an entitlement for portable long service benefits.

After at least 7 years of service under the Scheme you will be entitled to 1 hour for every 60 hours of recorded work.

You can accrue portable long service benefits concurrently with traditional long service. However, you can’t claim both benefits for the same period of service.

If you have taken traditional long service leave from your employer, this may reduce the balance of hours of portable long service available to claim.

Tracking your entitlements

Log in to the worker portal to track your portable long service entitlements and recognised service periods.

Contact us on 1800 517 158(opens in a new window) or email enquiries@plsa.vic.gov.au(opens in a new window) if you don’t know your log in details or if information is missing from the worker portal.

Eligibility to claim

To apply for portable long service benefits after at least 7 years of recognised service a worker must have service recorded in at least 28 quarters.

If you do not work in your industry for more than 4 consecutive years, your registration may become inactive.

Once your registration has been moved to the inactive part of the workers register, you may lose all your service days and may not be able to claim your long service leave.

We will contact you if you are approaching 4 consecutive years without at least one service day being credited to you by your employer(s).

Claiming portable long service

The Scheme started on 1 July 2019. More information will be available about the claims process as we move closer to workers completing 7 years of service under the Scheme.

Further information