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  2. Report a change in circumstances

Confirm change of child care services for Child Care Subsidy

If you change child care services, you don’t need to tell us as long as you’re still using an approved service.

  1. How much you can get
  2. Hours of subsidised child care

Other circumstances that affect hours of subsidised child care for Child Care Subsidy

The number of hours of subsidised child care you can get depends on your circumstances.

How we use adjusted taxable income

What you claim determines how we work out your adjusted taxable income.

Care calendar for when care arrangements for a child changes

Use this calendar to let us know how often you care for a child. We use this to work out your percentage of care to calculate FTB payments and child support.

  1. How to manage your assessment
  2. Changing your child’s care arrangements

Child support payments and care arrangements

If care arrangements change it may affect the child support payments you make or get.

  1. Binding child support agreement
  2. How to manage a binding child support agreement

Binding child support agreements affect your family payments

We’ll make a notional assessment after we accept your agreement.

  1. Binding child support agreement
  2. How to manage a binding child support agreement

End a binding child support agreement

To end your current agreement, you must make a new binding agreement that either replaces or terminates the current one.

What happens if you change how you transfer child support while you get FTB Part A

If you change how you collect child support, it could impact your FTB Part A. It could also impact our ability to recover underpayments of child support.

How child support affects FTB Part A payment rates

The more child support you receive or are entitled to, the less FTB you may get. This is called the Maintenance Income Test.

What happens if we update your child support assessment while you get FTB Part A

If circumstances change for you or the other parent, we’ll update your child support assessment. This means your FTB payments may change too.

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