Its amazing how much help familits get now a days. Not like this when my kiddies were little.

Even remembering to switch and update is no guarantee you’ll be better off. My son and daughter in law ended up worse off financially after updating derails

Just an update……my daughter in law was going to drop one day a fortnight at work so her income dropped so that the rebate stayed the same. She will be starting a new job in a week, all school holidays off and a pay drop. So good that she will get to spend all school holidays with her little boy, good that her childcare rebate will still be ok, not do good she has a pay drop

Thank you for the reminder, cheers.

This was advertised as bring more help to working families. Yet when my son and daughter in law updated their details, which haven’t changed in the 2 1/2 years my grandson has been alive for, they will now be paying more for the same amount of childcare. They will be financially better off if my daughter drops one day a fortnight of work to stay home and look their little boy. Makes me wonder what govt is thinking when they bring in ‘new and improved’ entitlements

Awesome this reminds me that I have to do mine, on my to do list.

Done – I hate Centrelink forms, but they do have a responsibility to ensure people are eligible.

They either make it too expensive or too complicated so people just don’t bother.

Thanks for the information I didn’t even know about this

Good information for those it impacts.

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  • • mom93821 replied
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  Thanks for the links too.

Time will tell how exactly this impacts us.

No child care benefit for us anymore 🙁

This will be my first year claimbing child care. Will be interesting to see how much we actually get back!!

I wonder how it will work out financially for families with 6 or more children that currently get a higher income from Centrelink +concessions than they would if one of the parents worked.

if the estimator is correct we will be $120 a fortnight worse off?? which doesn’t seem right as we are low income, if I work/earn more (currently work between 7 – 13 hrs a week) we would be worse off and would have to put our older child in Before School Care, which just compounds the costs, before I get concerned, I’m just going to wait and see what happens

With six kids I find it also easier to stay home. You are a great mum, Ellen! 🙂

So far we have received the highest subsidy, but I don’t have a played job. With 6 kids, from which one has a diabilty, I wouldn’t know how to hold a job unless I would hire a nanny and a housekeeper.

That looks like a great scheme. It will surely help women going back to work after their baby is born.