Australian Government Family Assistance Office

Family Assistance Office

What's New?

This website is regularly updated to ensure the information about payments and services provided by the Family Assistance Office is accurate, up to date and useful. Listed below are new pages or items of interest that have recently been added to our site.




January 2009 - Changes to Baby Bonus

From 1 January 2009, Baby Bonus will be subject to an income test and changes will be made to the way Baby Bonus is paid and access for adoptive parents will be extended. Find out more ...


July 2008

Updated multilingual fact sheets providing information about:

New Rates
Rates for the following payments were increased in July 2008:

May 2008


January 2008

A Multiple Birth Allowance (MBA) is added to Family Tax Benefit Part A for a parent who has three or more children born during the same birth. Up until 31 December 2007, the MBA stopped when the children turned six years old.

From 1 January 2008 the MBA will continue to be paid until:

September 2007


July 2007


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