Family Assistance Income statement

[sushee]

I received FTB B for a little bit last year before moving to Melbourne and I realised as I was preparing to my tax stuff together that I haven't received an income statement from FAO yet. Has everyone received theirs? Am I supposed to get one? Can I go into any FA office and get it over the counter?

I just worry that they've all been going to my address in WA.

[Rouge]

Or my house.

[sushee]

Roflmao. No, I think the redirection to your house finished after 6 months so if I didn't change addresses with FAO then it would have gone to WA right?

[Rouge]

Have you changed your address with Medicare? Doesnt that link?

[Calluna]

I live in QLD, not sure if it's the same Aus wide, but
When I changed my address with Medicare they sent me to another desk in the same office to change it with FA.
Are you talking about a group certificate? If yes, then you don't get one for family assistance as it's not "taxable income", according to my accountant.

[briggsy's girl]

no medicare doesn't link to family assistance - even though they are both under human services portfolio, they are still separate entities

BUT, having said that, ftb isn't considered an income, so you don't have to have a statement to prepare your taxes babe
you will need to update your addy so that you get your statement once reconciliation has occurred - you can do that online if you're registered (you will still get a partial supplement for the period you were on ftbb)

[Lolpigs]

No its not taxable you just have to declare how much you got. thats what I did on my tax return

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[sushee]

Yeah that's ok, I'm happy to declare the income, I just want to know how much it was, that's all. But thanks BG, if I don't need to wait for it, I won't bother going to FAO to try to get a statement. I'll just make sure that they have my Vic address now though before I lodge my return..

[Lolpigs]

They never sent me a statement either I had to go through my bank acts and add it up :/ does it give you a total on the online thing? I didn't even think to look lol

[sushee]

I used to do the online thing but now they redirected me through the dept of human services and I don't know what my logon details are from when I registered 8 months ago, so I gave up.

[briggsy's girl]

Ftb does NOT appear on your tax return. AT ALL

Ftb is like a tax return but paid in installments through the year. You do NOT include it anywhere on your return

Other centrlink payments need to appear. Ftb doesn't

[briggsy's girl]

I used to do the online thing but now they redirected me through the dept of human services and I don't know what my logon details are from when I registered 8 months ago, so I gave up.

just want to clarify - on the human services home page, you can still log in just to your c'link account - just go to the drop down box on top right corner of the screen, and choose centrelink as the site you wish to log in to

and yes, a lot of employers are electronically sending payment summaries now

[sushee]

It was at Rouge's so all good. They normally make it available to download off their electronic payroll system but as I'm no longer employed there I had to wait for it to come in the mail. But it's here so I'm good to go now.

[briggsy's girl]

awesomeness!