Parenting Payment
The main income support payment while you’re a young child’s main carer. This payment is also for job seekers who are main carers of young children.
To get this you must:
- be under the income and asset test limits
- meet principal carer rules
- care for a child under 8 if you’re single or under 6 if you’re partnered
- meet residence rules
- not have claimed before the birth of the child.
Read the full conditions under who can get it.
Page last updated: 24 April 2020
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