Help when you’re deciding to separate
Separating can impact your finances, family, and other areas in your life.
Proving parentage for a child support assessment
To get a child support assessment you must be a legal parent or non-parent carer. There are different ways you can prove this.
Child support care percentage estimator
The care estimator is a tool that calculates your care percentage.
Superannuation
Superannuation is a long term savings structure to help fund your retirement.
Advance payment
You may get part of your income support payment or Family Tax Benefit (Part A) early. This is an advance payment. You pay it back later out of your payments from us.
Principal carer rules for Parenting Payment
To get Parenting Payment you must be the main carer of a young child or children.
Severe financial hardship for Crisis Payment
For the purposes of Crisis Payment, you’re in severe financial hardship if you meet certain criteria.
Details of your child’s care arrangements form (FA012)
Use this form to provide information about your child’s care arrangements.
Deeming
Deeming rules are used to work out income from your financial assets. We add this to your other income and apply the income test to work out your payment rate.
How to apply for a limited child support agreement
Once you’ve read about a limited child support agreement, learn how to create one with the other parent.