Most useful information for Separated parents

1. Separated parents
2. Separating

Guide for newly separated parents

A list of tasks you may want to do when going through separation.

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. How to manage your assessment
2. Overpayments

Recovering child and spousal support payments

How we enforce payments of overdue amounts of child support and spousal support.

1. Separated parents
2. Most useful information

Details of your child’s care arrangements form (FA012)

Use this form to provide information about your child’s care arrangements.

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.

Proving your identity in person for a Centrelink payment

How to prove who you are in person at a service centre.

Asset types

Assets are property or items you or your partner own in full or part, or have an interest in. They can affect your payment.

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.

1. Death of a loved one
2. Most useful information

Advice of death form (SA116)

Use these forms to advise us of the death of an adult or child. We’ll use these details to update records with Medicare, Centrelink and Child Support.

1. Crisis Payment
2. Crisis Payment for extreme circumstances family and domestic violence

How much Crisis Payment for Extreme Circumstances Family and Domestic Violence you can get

You can get this Crisis Payment once per incident or circumstance.