there doesn't need to be any change to the FTB at all
Carer payment will be paid for DS1 - as long as DH claims primary carer status for one of the other kidlets, you can be paid the ppp for him and carers for you, plus ftb (leave that one in whatever name it's in - don't mess with the ftb at all!)
Yeah FTB comes to me and the difference between PPP and Newstart is like $3 so I figured it would be doable. It also means DH can be more realistic with his work choices (what will be doable with the kids etc). DH will be happy too, he's been stressing about how he could help with the kids, bond with DS2 and go to all the appointments/ interviews for jobs he has no qualifications for but they make you do
yeah, we put DH on PPP rather than Newstart when i went back to work, for similar reasons. his eyesight and dyslexia with total lack of computer skills means a lot is just out of the question, but he would have had to look for x number of jobs per fn while i built up my hours again - it just wasn't worth the stress.
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