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  2. What can affect your payment

Healthy Start for School health check

If your child is turning 4, they may need to have a health check. If they don’t, your Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A rate may reduce.

  1. Child Care Subsidy
  2. Who can get it

Resources about child care providers

Information for families about child care providers.

  1. Family Tax Benefit
  2. What can affect your payment

Family Tax Benefit when your child is 16 to 19 and stops full time study or school

If your child turns 16 and stops studying full time or going to school after they turn 16, your Family Tax Benefit (FTB) may change.

  1. What can affect your payment
  2. Child support and your Family Tax Benefit Part A

How child support affects FTB Part A payment rates

The more child support you receive or are entitled to, the less FTB you may get. This is called the Maintenance Income Test.

  1. Help for myGov, online accounts and mobile apps
  2. Centrelink online account help guides

Centrelink online account help - Withdraw a nominee request

Instructions on how to withdraw a nominee request made in your Centrelink online account.

  1. Child Care Subsidy
  2. How much you can get

The type of child care you use can affect Child Care Subsidy

The amount of Child Care Subsidy (CCS) you can get depends on the type of approved child care you use. It also depends on the age of your child.

  1. Top payments
  2. Additional Child Care Subsidy

How to manage your Additional child care subsidy

Your options and obligations for Additional Child Care Subsidy.

  1. Top payments
  2. Double Orphan Pension

How to claim Double Orphan Pension

Complete the following steps to claim Double Orphan Pension. Before you start, check if you can get it.

  1. Help for myGov, online accounts and mobile apps
  2. Express Plus Centrelink mobile app help guides

Express Plus Centrelink mobile app help - Apply for an advance payment

Instructions on how to apply for an advance payment using the Express Plus Centrelink mobile app.

  1. Parenting Payment
  2. Who can get it

Income and assets tests for Parenting Payment

The amount of Parenting Payment you can get depends on your income and assets as well as your partner’s, if you have one.

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