Top payments for separated parents

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Payment schedule and rates for people outside Australia

We’ll pay your pension differently if you live outside Australia on a permanent or long term basis.

Working Credit

Lets you keep more of your income support payment and benefits if you're working.

  1. Top payments
  2. Child support assessment

What you need to know about your child support assessment

How a child support assessment works.

  1. Relationship changes
  2. Most useful information

Relationship details form (SS284)

Use this form to provide us details of your living arrangements. This is so we can assess whether to pay you as a single person or as a member of a couple.

  1. Parenting Payment
  2. Who can get it

Principal carer rules for Parenting Payment

To get Parenting Payment you must be the main carer of a young child or children.

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

Child support when your child turns 18

Normally child support stops when your child turns 18. If your child's in secondary study, you can apply to extend it to the end of the school year.

  1. Death of a loved one
  2. Most useful information

Advice of death form (SA116)

Use these forms to advise us of the death of an adult or child. We’ll use these details to update records with Medicare, Centrelink and Child Support.

  1. Top payments
  2. Parenting Payment

How to claim Parenting Payment

Complete the following steps to claim Parenting Payment.

  1. How to get more information from us
  2. Explanations and formal reviews

Objections to Child Support decisions

If you don’t agree with a decision we’ve made you may be able to object.

  1. Contact us
  2. How to get more information from us

Explanations and formal reviews

Find out what you can do if you want more information or disagree with a decision we've made.

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