Means tested Baby Bonus

[briggsy's girl]

i honestly don't know MG - you do have up to a year to claim, so i'm guessing they'd look at it in arrears and see if you did go over in that six months post birth - i just haven't been at work to know for sure

[*Efjay*]

also, can you apply to have it in one lump sum? I thought i read you ciould but now i dunno...
like if it was being used as a deposit on a lger family car kwim? Big ticket items for bub etc?

[butterfly_warrior]

No, it's only available as a series of payments now. Actually a bit of a relief that Samuel arrived early... not that we've put in the forms to claim it yet!

BW

[briggsy's girl]

FJ - there are extreme circumstances in which you can apply to have it paid in a lump sum, but most requests will be denied. buying baby "essentials" such as a cot etc will be denied in almost every instance because you've had a whole pregnancy to organise this... perhaps for an extremely premmie baby that has had to be flown from the country to the city and parents have had extreme expense as a result, it would be taken into consideration, but those cases will be few and far between...

[*Efjay*]

oh ok, so bigger car woukd be denied also...
See I thought the whole point of the money was to buy baby /bigger family needs Items KWIM..

Is it now a "maternity leave " payment

[briggsy's girl]

it is now another "social security" payment for families on "lower" incomes.

i honestly don't know if a larger car would be deemed a neccessity worthy of having the baby bonus paid in a lump sum as it is something that could be planned for. it's one of those things i really don't know sorry hun...

it isn't a maternity leave payment - the maternity leave reform suggestions are still going through submissions and things - they won't go through for quite a while i don't think

[BeautifulMadness]

all so confusing, why wouldnt they have just left it the way it is. why do they have to confuse us and put most of us out who wanna put it towards things.

good ole centrelink lol

[2CheekyMonkeys]

someone told me yesterday that your assets and profits come into the threshold too? is this correct? she was saying that they are going to sell their house in that 6 months and the profits from that would be added to theier 'income' which would set them as more than the 75 000.?