Child support and your Family Tax Benefit Part A

Where possible parents should take primary responsibility for the cost of looking after their children. This is why we ask you to apply for child support.

The more child support you receive or are entitled to, the less FTB you can get.

If you change how you collect child support, it could impact your FTB Part A. It could also impact our ability to recover underpayments of child support.

If circumstances change for you or the other parent, we’ll update your child support assessment. This means your FTB payments may change too.

You need to know how this affects your FTB.

At the end of the financial year we’ll check we’re giving you the right amount of FTB.

If your circumstances change we may need to change your assessment.