Oh and with the FTB changing to DH its for the part A or B, I forget which one that goes to the lower income earner. Next year if things go well with me and DH decides to stay where he is on a lower wage we will change it over to him as I will be the "bread winner lol"
FTBB is based on the income of the lower income earner and the age of the youngest child. doesn't matter which partner it is paid to, it's still based on the lower estimate. if your partner is working full time, he'd have to be on seriously crap wages to qualify your family for any ftbb at all (if he's working 38hours he'd have to be getting MUCH less than minimum wage to have a low enough annual income for your family to qualify - the ftbb cuts out totally at around 24k, including supplements, when youngest child is under 5 years old - at 24k, full time, he'd have to be on about $12 an hour just to qualify for a small portion of the supplement)

it is MUCH neater, as a family unit, to keep it in the one name all the time - if you swap now, you'd have the first few months you've been overpaid for ftbb due to your income. put it in his name, he may get a top up for overestimates for late in the year, you end up with a debt for start of the year. MUCH better to keep it in same name all the time!!

ooh, make sure you request to notify a return to work for ftbb purposes if this is the first time you have worked since the birth of your youngest - the consultant will know what that means!