I'm now a working mum and my partner is the SAHM, and she gets the Parenting Payment - Partnered. The FTB is still in my name because its the FAMILY tax benefit so it doesn't matter whose name it is in. And apparently it's too hard to change it, so I didn't bother.
BTW my partner isn't our daughters biological parent and isn't on the birth certificate (stupid QLD...) but she gets PP-P.
Oh and with the FTB, ours was reduced dramatically because we swapped roles in January, and I think the person with the lower income has to be under a certain amount (from memory it was about $5000, but don't quote me) and we were over that amount so they reduce it. But it'll go up again come July hehe
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