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  1. Child Care Subsidy
  2. How to manage your payment

If you get both Child Care Subsidy and Family Tax Benefit

We pay both the subsidy and Family Tax Benefit (FTB) based on your family income estimate. The higher your estimate is, the less subsidy and FTB you’ll get.

  1. Growing up
  2. Teenage years

What happens when your child turns 19

When your child turns 19, your eligibility for Family Tax Benefit (FTB) stops. There are also some things to know if they start tertiary study.

Getting a Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) payment

Find out if you or your partner getting a Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) payment could affect your eligibility for a payment from us.

  1. How much you can get
  2. Hours of subsidised child care

Hours of subsidised child care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children for Child Care Subsidy

You can get 100 hours of subsidised child care per fortnight for each Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child in your care.

  1. Natural disaster
  2. Natural disaster support

Western Australia natural disaster support

Help for people directly affected by a natural disaster in WA, such as fires, storms or floods.

  1. How to balance your payment
  2. Balancing Child Care Subsidy

Time limits for confirming income for Child Care Subsidy

When you get Child Care Subsidy (CCS) you must confirm your family’s income after the end of each financial year. There are time limits for how long you have to do this.

  1. Retirement years
  2. Thinking about retirement

Financial services when thinking about retirement

When you're thinking about retirement, we have financial services and payment options that may help you.

  1. Natural disaster
  2. Natural disaster support

Victoria natural disaster support

Help for people directly affected by a natural disaster in Victoria, such as fires, storms or floods.

  1. Top payments
  2. Centrepay

How to use Centrepay

You can use the Centrepay bill paying service to pay for goods and services from registered businesses. You can set up Centrepay deductions from most Centrelink payments.

Parental Leave Pay counted as income

We treat Parental Leave Pay as taxable income. This means it counts in your income test for payments from us.

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