Apologies if this is in the wrong area!!!
I am jut interested to know if there are any casual teachers on here that claim FTB A & B?
I a currently working full time but would love to go part time once I have my bub. I just want to know if I will be able to claim Family Tax for the quiet weeks/school holidays where I won't have any work?
I am a part time teacher- I work 0.6 (3 days) and I am able to get some family tax benefit A, but earn over the threshold for B. Family tax benefit A is based on both mine and my Dh income though, so it is a combined total.
The best thing to do would be to work out how much you can earn to be eligible for FTB A & B, there are some calculators on the family assitance site, and then average out how many shifts that would be per financial year. For me if I work a relief day I get paid about $330 a day, if I wanted to say earn under $5000 dollars a year I know that I can't work anymore than 15 days per financial year.
The other day to do it would be to decide how many days you are willing to work- 1 day a week/ 1 day a fortnight etc, and work out how much that would be over the financial year and plug it into their calculator.
Your FTB payments are based on yours & your DP's income for the entire financial year. They calculate based on your estimated earnings what you would be entitled to, then you would be paid in fortnightly payments of the same amount each fortnight, or a lump sum payment at the end of the financial year.
You can ring each fortnight & report your earnings for parenting payment. It would also take into account both your's & your DP's earnings for the fortnight, but if neither of you work for a fortnight you might be entitled to a payment. If you do work you could get nothing, or a reduced amount. I'm not sure if there's a max amount of weeks you can do this though. It might be that if you don't recieve a payment of PP for 12 or 13 weeks then you would go off entitlements to it. I really don't know.
Best to look on the website, or even go in & ask.
FTB is an annual entitlement, broken down into fortnightly installments (if that's how you wish to have it paid) - you would, as advised, need to calculate what your annual income would be, and work out from there what your entitlement would be. it doesn't work on how much you get each fortnight. if you're entitled to a payment, you are entitled to that same payment EVERY fortnight. you can turn payments off and on, but it's a pain really.
parenting payment is very different to FTB and it works on the amount earned on a fortnight by fortnight basis. your combined income needs to be under 1500ish per fortnight (from memory) to qualify