The hours of subsidised care you can get per fortnight depends on the hours of recognised participation you do and your circumstances. If your recognised participation changes, your hours of subsidised care may also change.
If you have a partner, we’ll use the lower of your or your partner’s recognised participation and family circumstances to work out your hours of subsidised child care.
Find out more about how your recognised participation can affect your Child Care Subsidy.
What you need to do
You need to let us know when there’s a change to your or your partner’s level of recognised participation. For example, if you start or stop engaging in more than 48 hours of recognised participation.
It only takes a few minutes to do the update and you can do it yourself using your Centrelink online account through myGov.
To do this:
- Sign in to your Centrelink online account via myGov.
- Select Child Care from the My Family menu option.
- Select Child Care Subsidy participation details.
- Select Update details.
You can also use the Express Plus Centrelink mobile app.