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Time limits for submitting lump sum claims and confirming income for Family Tax Benefit

You have 12 months from the end of the financial year to confirm your family income for Family Tax Benefit (FTB) or claim FTB as a lump sum.

  1. Parenting Payment
  2. How to manage your payment

Prepare to transfer to Age Pension if you get Parenting Payment

If you get Parenting Payment and you’re Age Pension age, you can apply to transfer to Age Pension.

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

Travel outside Australia rules for Family Tax Benefit

There are rules about when you can get Family Tax Benefit when you travel outside Australia. The rules also apply if your dependent children go overseas.

  1. Parenting Payment
  2. How to manage your payment

Travel outside Australia rules for Parenting Payment

There are rules about how long you can get Parenting Payment when you travel outside Australia.

Parental Leave Pay counted as income

We treat Parental Leave Pay as taxable income. This means it counts in your income test for payments from us.

Notional assessment

We assess what the child support rate would be if the agreement wasn’t in place. We call this a notional assessment.

  1. Child support assessment
  2. What you need to know

What ends a child support assessment

There are a number of reasons why a child support assessment will end.

Employment Services Assessments

Employment Services Assessments (ESAts) help us understand the impact of your barriers to work including disability, illness or injury.

Examples to help you balance your family assistance payments

Find out what you need to do to balance your family assistance based on your circumstances.

  1. Asset types
  2. Private trusts and companies

Trust reviews

How we check that you correctly report the income you receive from a trust.

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