Most useful information for Separated parents

1. Family Tax Benefit
2. How to manage your payment

Support for grandparent carers

Extra assistance is available if you’re a grandparent caring for your grandchildren.

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

How to protect yourself when you claim a Crisis Payment for Extreme Circumstances Family and Domestic Violence

It’s important to consider how to claim safely. This may include changing your details or nominee arrangements.

1. Child health and safety
2. Wellbeing

Support for foster carers and other non-parent carers

We support foster carers, grandparents, kinship carers and informal carers who provide ongoing care for a child.

1. Income test
2. Income

Lump sums while on income support

A lump sum is a one off amount of money. They can count in your income test and may affect your payment from us.

1. Living with disability
2. Most useful information

Verification of medical conditions form (SU684)

Use this form to verify medical conditions affecting your capacity to work if you need an Employment Services Assessment.

1. Employment income reporting
2. When to report

Scheduled reporting

If you need to report your employment income, it’ll usually be every 14 days, on a date we tell you. We call this scheduled reporting.

1. Special Benefit
2. How to manage your payment

Overdrawn bank account

You can get help to access your money if you have an overdrawn bank account.

Working Credit

Lets you keep more of your income support payment and benefits if you're working.

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

Family Tax Benefit when your child is 16 to 19 or stops studying

When your child turns 16 or stops studying after they turn 16, your Family Tax Benefit (FTB) may change.

1. How to keep your payment
2. Employment income reporting

When to report your income to Centrelink

If you’re getting an income support payment, we’ll tell you when you need to report any other income you get.