Parental Leave Pay is changing from 1 July 2025
You’ll get more Parental Leave Pay days for a child born or adopted from 1 July 2025.
Foster Child Health Care Card
A concession card to get cheaper medicines and some discounts.
Ordinary waiting period
You may have to wait for a week before your payment starts. We will let you know when you claim if this applies to you.
When we balance your Child Care Subsidy
We balance Child Care Subsidy (CCS) from mid-August.
When we pre-fill your information
There are some things you need to know about income, Single Touch Payroll (STP) and other details we pre-fill into reports for you.
Express Plus Centrelink mobile app help - Apply for an advance payment
Instructions on how to apply for an advance payment using the Express Plus Centrelink mobile app.
Medicare Compensation Recovery Third party authority form (MO021)
Use this form to give us permission to release your compensation information and to give permission to a third party to sign relevant documentation on your behalf.
What Centrepay is
Centrepay is a voluntary bill paying service which is free for Centrelink customers. You can use Centrepay to arrange regular deductions from your Centrelink payment.
Confirm your family income for Child Care Subsidy by 30 June
If you got Child Care Subsidy (CCS) in the 2023-24 financial year, you need to confirm your family income.
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.