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

[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).