Parenting payment single (and FTB) & married...

[briggsy's girl]

Should I tell them we got married? What is the difference per fortnight in payment? And if I tell them, does hubby get on the health care card too? He works full-time, but is a low wage earner...

Lucy said it more politely than i could have!

you're married. you lied when you told them you were single and claimed PPS

hopefully you've simply worded this question wrongly and you're querying parenting partnered but with baby brain and all that stuff you've just said single. i will give you the benefit of the doubt. your baby is only a couple of weeks old so you may not even have been granted a payment yet. so, i'll play devil's advocate and say you typed the wrong word - giving you benefit of the doubt and all that jazz

yes, you can claim a parenting payment if you are partnered. you partners income has to be below around 1400 before tax is deducted (am working from memory - could be a bit more than that). yes, ftb will be based on both of you. if you qualify for a health care card, you entire family will qualify

if you have gone and claimed parenting single, ring and fix it to parenting partnered tomorrow morning, first thing

your sig tells everyone your circs - you need to be honest about it or it will come back and bite you on the bum big time!

Deez & Fiona married Sat 12th December 2009 and our lil Caulbearer Elly Wendy Olive-Grosser
Born Fri 29th January 2010, 12:38am, 38 mins late for Daddy's birthday!
Water baby born at home and in the Caul! 6'10", 49cm tall, 32cm head

[MissM]

Hi Phynna,

If you go to the centrelink website you will be able to work out what you are entitled to.

I too also suggest you let them know before the debt becomes too big and you'll struggle more to pay them back.

I am not going to give you any slack about claiming PPS or if you lied etc, just let them know first thing and fix it

[phynna]

Thing is other half and I split up last year and started living seperately.
Whilst we've reconciled now, at time of application for dole after work put me on maternity leave, the situation for C/link was that we'd split, and were amiacable, then while we did marry until 3 weeks ago we were still living seperately (4 hours seperately), despite weekends together.
I'll ring tomorrow. Ta

[Muppity]

It is good that you are going to ring them.

You can't just claim single because you aren't living together. There are plenty of people who for various reasons are living apart. Imagine if all the miners and defence force spouses could claim benefits just because their partners were working away.

[Kitt3n]

Lucy said it more politely than i could have!

Everyone said it more politely than I would have!

[~clover~]

Living apart does not mean you can claim PPS. You are still in a marriage/marriage like relationship. He is still supporting you isn't he? Alot of partners are away for months at a time.

[DoubleK]

yeah i think you need to ring and tell them your situation, i dont think that they will believe that you married but were'nt living together when the baby was born.. if im understanding you correctly. and i think if you're married, you wouldn't be eligible for PPS unless you could prove you had seperated.

[briggsy's girl]

yup - just cos you don't share a residence doesn't make you single. defence force, miners, truckers wives - we'd all be able to claim single status for x number of days per week if that applied. you obviously reconciled if you tied the knot. the day you reconciled is the day you should have notified centrelink. what bed you sleep in doesn't define your partnered status - there is much much more to it than that

i get VERY annoyed at the notion that is out there that spending 3 or less nights together a week means you're not "partnered" - pfffft. if that's the case, from the day DH and I got together until September last year, i was single!

[Inertia]

There is an additional category of Partnered but living apart isnt there, BG? Would she qualify for that or is there only certain conditions where that can be applied?

I was discussing this the other day with a friend but centrelink cannot put her as partnered as he is unable to come to centrelink to sign the form.

[Lulu]

They can post him a copy BR. Don't know why they aren't doing that?

[Rainbow_Mumma]

I'm going to say this as politely as I can as DH and I have struggled for years financially. DH was a truck driver and did a lot of interstate jobs in other words he was home very, very little sometimes gone for a few weeks at a time, home for a few days then gone again. I was being paid partnered, we did get an allowance for him being away but it wasnt much and did not compare to being on single payments.
When we got married we HAD to provide them with the certificate to verify what we were saying was correct and our payments werent changing so i think with your wedding being before your child was born and then you claiming single there is going to be some backpay needed from you.

[Rainbow_Mumma]

There is an additional category of Partnered but living apart isnt there, BG? Would she qualify for that or is there only certain conditions where that can be applied?

I was discussing this the other day with a friend but centrelink cannot put her as partnered as he is unable to come to centrelink to sign the form.

DH had to have the forms certified with the police and had it faxed for his verification as he was away at the time

[Lisa]

I was thinking this over last night. According to your signature, your bub is only 3 weeks old right? She was born in Jan. So in theory, you have been receiving PPS for 3 weeks. Yet you've been married since 12 Dec? How come you didn't tell centrelink when you applied for PPS that you were married? That's a major worry to me.

ETA - I just realised some of the other girls have raised these same concerns. I probably should have read all posts first