How your percentage of care affects your Family Tax Benefit (FTB) payments
As part of a care assessment, we consider how often each parent or non-parent carer, cares for a child. This is the percentage of care.
Centrelink payments and care arrangements
If a child’s care or shared care arrangements change, this may affect your Centrelink payments.
Child support payments and care arrangements
If care arrangements change it may affect the child support payments you make or get.
Updating parental income details
You’ll need to update your income details if you or your child get a letter from us asking for these.
Express Plus Centrelink mobile app help - Manage where your payments are sent
Instructions on how to change where we pay you using the Express Plus Centrelink mobile app.
How we can help with International services
You may be able to get a pension from Australia or another country under an agreement. You may also get your current payment if you're going overseas.
Social security agreements for International services
We have these agreements with many countries.
What are the exchange rates for International services
Your income and assets can change the amount of payment you get from us.
Rates we use for International services
We use the buying rate from the Commonwealth Bank as the exchange rate for most currencies. For other currencies we get the rates from other banks.
Check your International services exchange rate
You can check the foreign exchange rate we use for your income or assets.