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Okay, I rang last night and they said baby bonus had been processed and the payments were all queued up correctly. So because the person didn't sound sure of themself, I checked. In the first big payment it has 'one time payment of BBY' which I assume is the baby bonus, and the next payment just has FTB A & B and RA, all the max amounts that BG said, but no BBY. Should there be a BBY payment on there? I thought it was supposed to come fortnightly then for the next 12 fortnights?
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your baby bonus may be paid on a different day to your ftb installments
the "one time payment" is totally normal - it is set up as 13 individual payments, not as an ongoing payment
the first payment is around 870 per child, then each subsequent one is 370ish
if your baby bonus hasn't been paid yet (due to be paid monday or tuesday) the next installment won't show on online services as online services will only show you what is to be delivered a max of 14 days into the future.
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So okay I'm pretty sure thats what it is -
It says 'Your last payment was $x paid on Monday 3rd October 2011' (which is interesting considering that date hasn't come yet lol) and then it has the next one saying 'Your next payment will be $x on Friday 14th October'. So what that means is that Baby bonus is getting paid regularly on Mondays, whereas the FTB and Rent assistance will be Fridays, and since that next Monday isn't within the 14 day window, the next baby bonus payment wont show yet, correct? So it should all be right unless come Monday there isn't a future payment showing for the 17th, right?
Gosh its all so confusing! Surely there is some kind of baby bonus FAQ with this in it somewhere!
Em - You poor thing! And now you have to put up with DH and his grand final rage!
M2R - Definitely check up on that if they haven't given you a one off bigger payment first up!
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that payment left FAO on Thursday - so it's not a future payment - it cannot be changed - it has been paid to your bank to deliver to you, hence the last payment part of it.
your baby bonus will be on the monday each fn and cannot be changed. your ftb will be whatever day it is now (friday isn't it?) but if you need to change that one for budgeting reasons, you can request it
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Edit - double post - sorry!
Last edited by briggsy's girl; October 1st, 2011 at 10:31 AM.
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Hon - I don't know if I am reading this correctly (because 2 little misses have had me up since 4.30am) but our Baby Bonus never showed up on our online payment list on the Family Assistance website. The only payments it shows are the FTB payments, and any payments we get for our Childcare rebate. The baby bonus just showed up in our bank account one day. We got a letter informing us of when it started and the end date, but that was after it started. I just logged onto my banking on day and there was extra money there - yay!
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and my first BB payment came the other day, a month after lodging and was only 377 they said. whats this about a one off bigger amount?
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the first payment should have an extra $500 - it may list differently to your other payments. to be honest, i haven't looked at online services to see what it appears like as i haven't come across anyone asking
they reduced the fortnightly installments from around 407 to 370ish and pay the additional amount (500) as a lump sum at the start.
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the BB payments showed in my online services
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it may not show as a seperate payment if it's made on the same day as ftb payments
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