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  1. How to manage your payment
  2. Report a change in circumstances

Update your relationship status for Child Care Subsidy

If your relationship status changes throughout the year, you need to let us know.

  1. How to manage your payment
  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.

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

How your percentage of care affects your Family Tax Benefit (FTB) payments

As part of a care assessment, we consider how often each parent or non-parent carer, cares for a child. This is the percentage of care.

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.

Child support payments and care arrangements

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

  1. Social work services
  2. How we help

Social work services for your mental health

We can help you access mental health support services in certain circumstances.

  1. Express Plus Child Support mobile app
  2. How to download and set up the app

Download the Express Plus Child Support mobile app

When you’ve set up your Child Support online account, you can download and use the Express Plus Child Support mobile app.

  1. Express Plus Child Support mobile app
  2. How to download and set up the app

Set up the Express Plus Child Support mobile app

You’ll need to set up the app before you use it.

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