Baby Bonus is $5000 paid in 13 installments. The first installment is around $800 and the rest are about $350. To be eligible, your combined income in the first 6 months following the birth of your baby must be below $75,000. Baby Bonus is not taxable.

Parental Leave Pay is paid to primary carers who have left work (or taken leave) due to birth of a child. You need to have worked for a total of 330 hrs across 10 of the 13 months prior to birth of the child and not had a break of more than 8 weeks. Your income in the financial year prior to the child's birth must have been less than $150k. You cannot work while receiving PLP. It is paid for 18 weeks and is the same rate as the federal minimum wage which at the moment is approx $580 p/w before tax. PLP is taxable. You can receive any maternity/parental leave entitlements from your employer as well as the government

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BG, you might be best at answering this. Why is the income threshold different for the baby bonus and the plp? If that limit is right, we're not eligible for the bb but from what I can understand from the above I might not meet the work requirements of the plp so we'll lose out.