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  1. Express Plus Child Support mobile app
  2. How to get help

Contact us to get help using the Express Plus Child Support mobile app

If you need more help read our online guides or call us.

  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.

  1. What can affect your payment
  2. Child support and your Family Tax Benefit Part A

Why you need to apply for child support while you get FTB Part A

Where possible, parents should take primary responsibility for the cost of looking after their children. This is why we ask you to apply for child support, also known as maintenance.

  1. What can affect your payment
  2. Child support and your Family Tax Benefit Part A

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.

  1. What can affect your payment
  2. Child support and your Family Tax Benefit Part A

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.

  1. What can affect your payment
  2. Child support and your Family Tax Benefit Part A

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.

  1. What can affect your payment
  2. Child support and your Family Tax Benefit Part A

When you have a child support agreement while you get FTB Part A

You need to know how this affects your FTB.

  1. What can affect your payment
  2. Child support and your Family Tax Benefit Part A

Family Tax Benefit Part A balancing and child support

If you get Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A and child support, we’ll check you got the right amount of FTB when we balance your payments.

Paying child support by Private Collect or self-management

Paying parents who use Private Collect or self management to make child support payments don’t need to tell us about these arrangements.

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