From what I have read in the newspapers, the date they are meant to start getting handed out is April 6 or April 9. I am assuming it's later on because families receiving the payment for being single income are already on FAO's system and details are updated regularly or as they occur, so there is less chasing up to be done, but the Tax Office only knows what it was told when you did your last tax return, so your bank account details, address, and income details may have changed since then so everything has to be sorted before they can give you the payment (for example, you may have been on $75k a year until recently and then gotten a job earning $85k so you would be entitled to less, ATO has to sort through everyone's stuff and figure out who is eligible for what).
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