Around 170,000 Australian families who get Family Tax Benefit (FTB) and 241,000 families who get Child Care Subsidy (CCS) are being reminded to confirm their 2024-25 income with Services Australia by 30 June 2026.
If they don’t, they risk missing out on top up payments or may have to pay full child care fees.
That’s less than one month away.
So if you are behind, and haven’t confirmed your income from last financial year, act now because the deadline is real!
What happens if I miss the June 30 deadline?
If you miss the FTB deadline:
- You have to repay all of the FTB you received in 2024-25.
- You won’t get any additional top-up, arrears or supplement payments.
- If you were planning to lodge a lump sum claim, it will be too late after June 30.
If you miss the CCS deadline:
- Your CCS payments will stop from 6 July, meaning you’ll have to pay full child care fees.
- If you confirm your income after this date, you won’t be back paid for any payments you may have missed.
- In addition, if you don’t confirm your family income for 2023-24 by 30 June, your CCS will cancel and you may have to pay us back any money you were paid for that year.
How to confirm your income: a simple 5-minute task
To confirm your 2024-25 family income, you (and your partner if you have one) need to lodge your 2024-25 tax return with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).
Or, if you don’t need to lodge a tax return, you can confirm your and your partner’s income by advising Services Australia that you’re not required to lodge, using your Centrelink online account through myGov or the Express Plus Centrelink app.
If you’re using the app, select More from your home screen, then select Advise tax non-lodgement.
You can work out if you need to lodge a tax return on the ATO’s website.
If there’s a reason you can’t confirm your income you should call the Services Australia Families line to discuss your options. If you had a partner during the year, we also need to confirm their income for CCS. You don’t need to contact them for this information. You should call us to discuss.
Watch out for scams
Families are also being warned to stay alert to scams, which are common in the lead up to tax time.
Scammers may pretend to be from Services Australia, the ATO, myGov, or another government department or agency. They may send emails and text messages with links to try and steal your personal and financial information.
If they get a hold of this information, they might be able to use your identity to steal your payments, or commit fraud.
If you get a message claiming to be from a government department, these simple steps can help protect you.
Stop – if a message tells you to click a link to sign in to myGov or asks for your personal details, stop right there. That’s not us.
Check – messages from us usually land in your myGov Inbox, not by emails and text messages with links. The safest way to check is to open the official myGov app or type my.gov.au into your browser yourself, sign in, and look at your Inbox.
Protect – use a stronger way to sign in to myGov, like a passkey or Digital ID. Passkeys use your phone or device security like your fingerprint, face ID or PIN. This makes it much harder for scammers to get in. To improve your myGov account security, go to the Security review section of your account.
For more information about myGov scams, go to my.gov.au/scams
Originally published by Yahoo Finance on 31 May 2026.