Most useful information

1. Top payments
2. Carer Allowance

While you wait for Carer Allowance

There are some things you can do while you wait for your Carer Allowance claim outcome.

1. Crisis Payment
2. Crisis Payment for extreme circumstances family and domestic violence

How much Crisis Payment for Extreme Circumstances Family and Domestic Violence you can get

You can get this Crisis Payment once per incident or circumstance.

1. Crisis Payment
2. Crisis Payment for other extreme circumstances

How much Crisis Payment for Other Extreme Circumstances you can get

You can get this Crisis Payment once per incident or extreme circumstance.

1. Work Bonus
2. How it works

Work Bonus if you don’t work

If you don’t work you still accrue a bonus.

1. How to balance your payment
2. Balancing Family Tax Benefit

Track the progress of your Family Tax Benefit balancing

You can track your Family Tax Benefit (FTB) balancing in the Express Plus Centrelink mobile app.

Balancing dates if you were single and got income support

If you were single and got an income support payment for the entire financial year, we may balance your Family Tax Benefit (FTB) without you doing anything.

1. Centrelink Compensation Recovery
2. When you get lump sum compensation

Repayments due to lump sum compensation

When you get a compensation lump sum, you may need to repay us a charge for your income support payments.

Your family income estimate for family assistance payments

We use your family income estimate to work out how much family assistance to pay you. This includes Family Tax Benefit (FTB) and Child Care Subsidy (CCS).

Income maintenance period

This waiting period may apply if you or your partner have stopped work and got leave or redundancy payments.

1. Top payments
2. Carer Payment

When you’ll get your first Carer Payment

There may be one or more waiting periods that apply before you get your first Carer Payment.