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So we are thinking of TTC soon and I just had a quick question...
Was talking to the neighbour yesterday who is 5 weeks PG with #3 and she mentioned that the payments for 2 children makes life alot easier....
What have you experienced??? Just wanting to know whether TTC is feisable for us?????
Ella
When you have another baby, any parenting payment you get won't change, but your FTB goes up. I think any rent assistance stays the same. Not much else changed from what I can remember. So it all depends on your own situation, really. How much you & your partner earn.
our went up a whopping $46 so its not much!
it's really dependant on income. it doesn't make a great deal of difference - the MOST ftb goes up is about 150 a fortnight...
depends on what your receiving we only get ftb b so no change for us except the maternity payment thing
Hmmmm...
Thanks girls definitely some food for thought, although $150 isn't much, I guess it will help when I was thinking everything stayed the same...
It jumps more when you go from 2 to 3
Ella - I think the $150 would probably only be if you were a single mum with no other income at all? I could be wrong.
With 3, it still depends on income, but you get a large family supplement...I think its a whole $10 or so a fn.
Hmm I will have to find out from Centrelink, can you do that online???
There is a rate estimater on there. I haven't used it, so not sure how it works.
the estimator will help. go to online services - it's in there
the 150 per fn is the max amount, and would apply to those families whose total annual income is less than about 45k
When I tried centrelink site this morning it said online services were currently unavailable. Not sure if it is up & running now or not though, or if the estimator is included in that :)
ours doubled!
My FTB went up from $50 to around $150 a fortnight plus BB for 6 months
Kitt3n do you mind me asking how much you were getting???
We are on a very low income, maybe $28K a year....
i think it might have something to do with DD! being older, in school
Probably best to check with c/link directly hun
so I just did the estimator and apparently we would get about another $202 a fortnight....
That's huge!!!