- Family Tax Benefit
- What can affect your payment
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.
- Child support assessment
- How to manage your assessment
Care calendar for when care arrangements for a child changes
Use this calendar to let us know how often you care for a child. We use this to work out your percentage of care to calculate FTB payments and child support.
- Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme
- Who can get it
Living and study requirements for Assistance for Isolated Children
Your child’s living and study arrangements will determine which allowance or supplement you get.
- Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme
- Who can get it
Age requirements for Assistance for Isolated Children
Your child must meet the age requirements.
- Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme
- Who can get it
Isolation conditions for Assistance for Isolated Children
To get Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC), your child must meet certain isolation conditions.
Why you need to apply for child support while you get FTB 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, also known as maintenance.
What happens if you change how you transfer child support while you get FTB Part A
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.
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.
What happens if we update your child support assessment while you get FTB Part A
If circumstances change for you or the other parent, we’ll update your child support assessment. This means your FTB payments may change too.
When you have a child support agreement while you get FTB Part A
You need to know how this affects your FTB.