Baby bonus help?

Hi everyone.

I read on the centrelink website that you need to be in paid work to recieve the baby bonus, is this true? I'm in training right now and my work is commission only, so when I start getting paid I will be operating as a sole trader rather than an employee. Will I still be eligible for the baby bonus? What if the amount of work doesn't pick up and I don't actually earn any money? :redface: bub is due at the end of January.


Thanks!

Can you post the link for where you read that on the Centrelink website? I am interested to have a look.

I still thought that everyone got the baby bonus as long as you and your partner earn less than $75000 in the 6 months following the baby's birth and it isn't paid as a lump sum anymore - instead 13 fortnightly installments.

Well that's what I thought anyway . . . but I could be very wrong.

Sorry - not much help really.

Looking at the requirements, I can't see it. Perhaps it was something that was proposed but wasn't implemented?

I was under the impression that, aside from the new income threshold, everybody is entitled to claim it, working or not.

Could that be referring to the new maternity allowance for working mothers seperate to the $5000 already in place?

Jo

there is no requirement to work, just that combined income has to be under 75k in first 6 months post virth