Parenting Support Payments

1: Couple Were Rorting Centrelink While Living in Lebanon | July 29, 2014

A married couple have chosen to live in Lebanon, but have frequented Australia for the birth of each of their children, solely for the purpose of claiming a raft of family-based welfare payments…

2: Shared care and Family Tax Benefit | April 24, 2014

This factsheet explains how Family Tax Benefit (FTB) works when the care of children is shared, most frequently in the event of divorce or separation. It also explains how to deal with problems that can arise, particularly when two carers do not agree on the “percentage of care” that should apply…

3: Pensioners overlooked in budget | May 16, 2013

REDLAND City business and welfare groups said Treasurer Wayne Swan’s sixth budget failed the needy and those whose only income was a pension…

4: School tax breaks and refunds | February 1, 2013

Sending a child to school is an expensive business, even if they go to a public school – there’s the uniform, the bags, the stationery, the shoes and so on. State and Federal governments recognise that school and going back to school at the beginning of the year can be an expensive time for parents and have some refunds and payments in place. Here are a few…

5: Swan Rejects Call To Raise Single Parent Payment | January 3, 2013

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has rejected backbench calls for the Government to reinstate higher welfare payments for single parents…

6: More single mothers seek full-time work | November 17, 2012

New figures show growing numbers of single women juggling busy working lives with the intense demands of bringing up children. In 2001 there were 121,400 single women in Australia with a child, working more than 35 hours each week. Jump forward a decade and their numbers have grown dramatically, by 43 per cent. By the time of the 2011 census, there were 173,600 single mothers working full-time hours across Australia…

7: Centrelink says 3000 single mothers eligible for more generous payment | November 16, 2012

CENTRELINK estimates reveal 3000 single mothers meant to be put on the dole next January will now be eligible for the more generous Disability Support Pension or the Carers’ Payment…

8: Gay dads eligible for paid parental leave | October 2, 2012

GAY parents now have the same rights as heterosexual couples and will be fully eligible for paid parental leave when they have a baby…

9: TOUGH LOVE: Budget targets single parents to save $700m | May 4, 2012

ALL single, unemployed parents will have their parenting support payments axed when their youngest child turns eight – a tough-love Budget measure designed to force them back to work…