Supplements/Reco 2011

[nic76]

I was wondering if this is what you meant but online ?
I might have to ring, I am so lost lol....

[briggsy's girl]

yes, that bit

you better delete the pic though hun - they're a no go!

if you're not sure how to do it, give FAO a call - but make sure you have a cuppa and a biscuit - it may take a while!

[Beautiful Disaster]

Ok so I have got my tax refund back and it was the amount i was execting but there is nothing showing on my online services as to whether I get a supp payment or not. am i missing the spot where it tells me or is it on the first screen where it has the regular payment and stuff.

[~clover~]

Kylz, as far as I know it doesn't show up til 2 days before its due to go into your bank account. Once its been processed. Weather or not it should've been processed by now I couldn't tell you

[Beautiful Disaster]

Thanks S

[briggsy's girl]

has your DH done his tax?
both results are required
it may take a few days for your result to be processed

essentially fao gets the ato result
sends your result to ato to see if you owe money
ato send back to fao
fao issue payment
it CAN take up to 28 days - it hasn't been - but it can

[*Efjay*]

BG, if DH has a tex debt (hecs fees) that wont come out of my FTB supplements will it?

[briggsy's girl]

nope!
it will take tax debts for YOU, but not for him

[*Efjay*]

thanks. the FTB sups will be used to pay his hecs debt anyway but just wasn't sure what to expect.

[Beautiful Disaster]

has your DH done his tax?
both results are required
it may take a few days for your result to be processed

essentially fao gets the ato result
sends your result to ato to see if you owe money
ato send back to fao
fao issue payment
it CAN take up to 28 days - it hasn't been - but it can

Yes BG he got his back last fri!

[briggsy's girl]

then i'd guess your payment is between ATO and FAO at the moment and will be paid to you as soon as it is cleared.

[Beautiful Disaster]

then i'd guess your payment is between ATO and FAO at the moment and will be paid to you as soon as it is cleared.

Wooohoooooo thanks BG you always have the answers. Will it just show on the front screen where it says your next payment is .....

[briggsy's girl]

Yeah it will. Just check every few days

[Beautiful Disaster]

Sweet thank you BG

[JennaJayen]

Just a quick question - as I know I'll get a better answer on here than i got from the CL lady I spoke to on the phone today.

Last year we got the FTBA and FTBB payments, PLUS repayment of almost $1000 from CL because of over estimate.

This year, same estimate until July 1st, only slightly higher actual income and we only got a little over $100 back as repayment for the over estimate plus the FTBA and FTBB payments, meaning we got just under $900 less than last year.

Does this sound right? The lady I spoke to today said it was all we were entitled to even though we had overestimated by more than $10,000 and are lower income earners.

[briggsy's girl]

it depends on how the income is split

you could have had a 40k/10k split last year, estimated 40/20 and got a large payment back as the lower income earner earned much less than the estimate - so you get a top up of family tax part A (for the 50k combined income instead of 60k) and a top up of part B (for the 10k instead of 20k)
if you again had a 40/20 estimate, but your split was actually 33/17 (as an example), you'd be entitled to ftba top up for the a over estimate, but much less for the b - even though you earned exactly the same income combined

in the same vein, if you had 50/10 estimate, but actually earned 40/15 - you would have been slightly underpaid for ftba, but actually been overpaid for ftbb, and would have had that overpayment deducted from the ftba amount

it's rather complex, and you kinda need specific numbers to work out exactly what went wrong lol

there are also "thresholds" - areas where, if you are in a specific window of estimates/actual income, you will get the exact same amount - so an overestimate doesn't really make the same impact as it does if you're deemed very low income kwim?

[JennaJayen]

Thanks hun, I ended up calling them again and found out that it was all because we had received parenting payment for most of the last financial year so what we would have been owed has been used to top up the FTB B over the past financial year and for part of this financial year if that makes sense?

Hubby's estimate was at 49k a year and mine was set at 4.5k (to cover parenting payment) for most of last year, and we changed them right at the end of the financial year to the minimum we could at the advice of one of the CL customer service people.

All is good now though Thanks again hun.

[SammyRo]

I got a bit of a shock when I saw a rather large (larger than anticipated) deposit from the government into our bank account today...and I'm a bit worried that its wrong. There was also a much smaller one, which I think is CCR. There's nothing showing on our centrelink page other than our usual payment. Do you think they've deposited it incorrectly?? Or might it take a while to show up on the screen? I've put it into our savings account just in case they want it back (but I'm secretly praying they don't )