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Child Support online account help - Update current income

Instructions on how to update your income for the current financial year using your Child Support online account.

  1. Top payments
  2. Child support assessment

How to apply for a child support assessment

You can apply for a child support assessment online.

  1. How to manage your assessment
  2. Compare your child support collection options

Private Collect

This is where you and the other parent make and receive payments directly between you. It’s for parents who don’t need much help from us to agree on a plan.

  1. Separated parents
  2. Most useful information

Child over 18 in full time secondary education form (CS2716)

Use this form to extend child support to the end of the school year before your child turns 18.

  1. Child support assessment
  2. How to manage your assessment

Child support assessment if you go to prison

You must tell us if you go to prison. This is so we can make sure your child support is accurate.

  1. Child support assessment
  2. How we work out your assessment

Child support care percentage estimator

The care estimator is a tool that calculates your care percentage.

  1. Child support assessment
  2. How we work out your assessment

How your percentage of care affects your child support payments

We consider each parent or non-parent carer’s care of the child as part of our child support assessment. This is their percentage of care.

  1. Separated parents
  2. Separating

Update your details with us when you’re separating

It’s important to update your details with us if you get a payment. This is so we pay you the right amount.

  1. Separated parents
  2. Learning about child support

Child support payment types

When you’ve decided what your child support arrangement will be, you’ll need to choose how to transfer payments.

  1. Raising kids
  2. Separated parents

Help when you’re deciding to separate

Separating can impact your finances, family, and other areas in your life.

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Page last updated: 17 November 2025.
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