Centrelink Help - Fringe Benefits

[briggsy's girl]

my brain isn't totally functioning right so i can't recall (12 months off work will mess with your head) - have your figures handy when you ring to report (so the payslip amount and the fbt seperately) and confirm with the person you are speaking to. i don't think it gets reported if it doesn't appear on your payslip but i don't have access to the stuff i would at work to confirm (hope that makes sense)

[*Nikki*]

Thanks for your help BG i was hoping you would be around lol... I report online (which only has a box for income not a seperate one for fringe benefits) so i'll give them a call tomorrow to ask them about it... we just dont want to end up with a huge bill if we do something wrong

its all so confusing.. i hope i feel better about it tomorrow

[Amyjane]

I have just been reading an searching the internef im in the same boat u were in a year ago, just wondering if u sorted out what to report as far as the fringe bennefits for parenting payments. Ive spoken 2 centerlink 10 times an get an answer that is different every time. One guy said i only need 2 report 48.5 percent of the fortnightly fringe bennifit an he wanted to know if it was gross of net. I tried 2 call back 2 say gross but no one knows any things. Any info would be really appriciated!! Thanks

[briggsy's girl]

you need to report your gross income - so what you earn before anything is deducted.

so if you ear $20 an hour, but they take x amount of that for fbt, y amount for tax, you still report the $20 per hour for parenting payment purposes

for family tax benefit, you need to report the total gross VALUE of the FBT annually - the system then calculates the amount that is included as income (something like 51.5 or 53.5%)

[Amyjane]

Thank you for such a quick reply, I've sorted it all out with centerlink. I dont qualify 4 parenting partnered payment which sucks but at least it's all right an I'm not getting over paid which would be worse. thank you