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  1. Child Care Subsidy
  2. How much you can get

Examples to help you understand your Child Care Subsidy

Understand how we work out your Child Care Subsidy rate and hours of subsidised child care.

Advising non-lodgement of a tax return

If you got Family Tax Benefit (FTB) or Child Care Subsidy (CCS) and you or your partner don’t need to lodge a tax return, you need to tell us and confirm your family income.

  1. How to manage your payment
  2. If your child is absent from child care

Child Care Subsidy if you’re affected by an emergency

You may be able to access extra support with the cost of your child care.

  1. Child Care Subsidy
  2. How to manage your payment

Changing your Child Care Subsidy enrolment details

If your enrolment ends or your details change, you should let us know. If your enrolment ends, your Child Care Subsidy will stop.

Pause of requirements

Sometimes there may be a pause of your mutual obligation or participation requirements.

  1. Child support assessment
  2. How to manage your assessment

Registering an Australian maintenance order or court registered maintenance agreement

You can apply to register a maintenance order or agreement made by an Australian court with us. This lets us collect and transfer the maintenance liability.

  1. Child support assessment
  2. Who can get an assessment

Proving parentage for a child support assessment

To get a child support assessment you must be a legal parent or non-parent carer. There are different ways you can prove this.

Update your name or title with Child Support

It’s important to tell us if you change your legal name.

Update your gender details with Child Support

You can update your gender or your child’s gender with us.

Income from Commonwealth Prac Payment

If you get a payment from us, you need to report any Commonwealth Prac Payments you get as income.

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Page last updated: 17 November 2025.
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