Ongoing clean energy supplements

[briggsy's girl]

Yup a few extra bucks a fn with carers/parenting payments from now (well, march 20) and with ftb from July 1.

The fortnightly amount will vary depending on your payment type
Clean Energy Supplement

The exact dollar amounts are not available online at this stage as they come in to play along with the CPI increase on march 20. You will start to see increases in payment rates for any payments delivered from march 22 onwards

[~clover~]

Thanks BG. You wouldn't be able to opt for a lump sum payment each year would you?

[briggsy's girl]

not in advance, no - and not annually - but you can believe you can opt to have it paid quarterly in arrears (so march to june paid in july, july to sept in october, etc) - would mean about 6 or 7 fn worth of payment each installment (i know you can do it with ftb, and quite sure you can with income support payments - i just won't say it unequivocally cos i'm running on memory here!)

[~clover~]

Wasn't thinking in advance, but definetly a good option to have. Might look online once payments have started & see if there's more info. If not I may one day get game & try ringing. Impossible in WA, coz they don't accept calls til a certain time over here, & by then they're already flat out in call centres

[briggsy's girl]

fao is open til 8 though so the last part of the day is just the western states...

[~clover~]

I've tried calling later in the arvo & they've been closed. I thought it was because they close the same time country wide, or we only got an extra hour or something. Will have to find out Thanks

[briggsy's girl]

It's definitely 8-8 local time
If the queue is too long and not anticipated to be handled by 8, they may close the lines early though