Child support assessment period
A child support period is the amount of time an assessment covers. It can be up to 15 months.
Child support care percentage estimator
The care estimator is a tool that calculates your care percentage.
Proving your identity in person for a Centrelink payment
How to prove who you are in person at a service centre.
Advance payment
You may get part of your income support payment or Family Tax Benefit (Part A) early. This is an advance payment. You pay it back later out of your payments from us.
Download the Express Plus Child Support mobile app
When you’ve set up your Child Support online account, you can download and use the Express Plus Child Support mobile app.
The child support assessment formula
The child support assessment formula looks at your circumstances to work out how much child support should be paid.
How your percentage of care affects your child support payments
We consider each parent or non-parent carer’s care of the child as part of our child support assessment. This is their percentage of care.
Recovering child and spousal support payments
How we enforce payments of overdue amounts of child support and spousal support.
Who can get a child support assessment
To be eligible for a child support assessment you must be the legal parent or non-parent carer of the child. You also must meet residence rules.
How to prove your identity to Centrelink through myGov
How to prove who you are to Centrelink through myGov using the Centrelink identity verification linking option.