Family Assistance Office

What payments we offer

The Family Assistance Office can help you with the costs of parenting. The available family assistance payments are:

• Family Tax Benefit A helps families with the cost of raising children.
• Family Tax Benefit B gives extra assistance to families with one main income including sole parents.
• Child Care Benefit helps families with the cost of child care.
• Child Care Tax Rebate (for child care costs incurred on or after 1 July 2006) - additional help for working families with the cost of child care
• Baby Bonus is money to help with the extra costs of a new child (including adopted and still born children) born on or after 1 July 2004.
• Maternity Immunisation Allowance is a separate payment for children aged 18 - 24 months who are fully immunised or have an approved exemption from immunisation.

• Large Family Supplement if you get Family Tax Benefit for three or more children, this will be added to your Family Tax Benefit for each child after the second.
• Multiple Birth Allowance if three or more of your children were born at the same time, this will be added to your Family Tax Benefit until the children turn 16 years of age; or if at least three of the children are in full time study, until the end of the calendar year in which they turn 18 years of age.
• Rent Assistance can give you extra help if you are eligible and you receive more than the base rate of Family Tax Benefit Part A and you pay rent to private landlords.
• Health Care Cards are issued automatically if you are entitled to receive the maximum rate of Family Tax Benefit Part A and you get your payment through the Family Assistance Office.
• Double Orphan Pension provides additional assistance to raise children who are orphans.
• Jobs, Education and Training Child Care fee assistance - extra help with the cost of approved child care for eligible parents undertaking activities such as work, job search, training, study or rehabilitation as part of an activity agreement, to help them enter or re-enter the workforce.