Online claiming of FTB and baby bonus 3 months ahead of exptected date????

[~*familyof3*~]

eutra - so does that mean that we could claim baby bonus soon for our bubs thats due in Jan???

[briggsy's girl]

as long as it is less than 3 months til EDD, then yes, you can. all the info goes to fao, they chase up anything extra that is needed (ID, visas if not from Au initially, citizenship), the application will then stay there pending arrival of the proof of birth after baby arrives

if you claim paid parental leave for a bub due in January, and it is born early, you can change the claim to baby bonus as well

[~*familyof3*~]

thanks hun

[*TripleJ*]

does that mean that i can do mine now do i just do it through my online thingy

[briggsy's girl]

J i haven't done the training, so i will admit to not knowing the exact process if you're claiming baby bonus for a subsequent kidlet when you already have one you're claiming ftb for. i am assuming you should be able to, but the information you will need to provide needs to be filled in on the baby bonus claim form anyway (like the six month estimate), so you're probably best to wait rather than double handling it. the current process is that, if you are ftb current, you don't need to do anything online - just fill in the form and send it off

[e_p]

J i haven't done the training, so i will admit to not knowing the exact process if you're claiming baby bonus for a subsequent kidlet when you already have one you're claiming ftb for. i am assuming you should be able to, but the information you will need to provide needs to be filled in on the baby bonus claim form anyway (like the six month estimate), so you're probably best to wait rather than double handling it. the current process is that, if you are ftb current, you don't need to do anything online - just fill in the form and send it off

I agree with BG - the training wasn't that specific about this circumstance - you could always do the online claim now for baby bonus if you wanted to but I don't think it will really save you any time/hassles since you have to take in the Newborn medicare enrolment/midwives declaration form thingo anyway (FA101).

[e_p]

eutra - so does that mean that we could claim baby bonus soon for our bubs thats due in Jan???

BG beat me to it - yes, you can claim for babies due after 01/01/2011 and supply all the documents now - once you provide proof of birth, the payments will start. If bubs is born prior to 01/01/2011, you can change from paid parental leave to baby bonus.