- Express Plus Child Support mobile app
- 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.
- Binding child support agreement
- 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.
- Binding child support agreement
- 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 can affect your payment
- 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.
- What can affect your payment
- 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.
- What can affect your payment
- 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.
- What can affect your payment
- 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.
- What can affect your payment
- 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.
- What can affect your payment
- 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.