Second child Centrelink payments

**Ella** · November 25th, 2009, 06:00 AM

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

**~clover~** · November 25th, 2009, 06:09 AM

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.

**Olive** · November 25th, 2009, 06:14 AM

our went up a whopping $46 so its not much!

**briggsy's girl** · November 25th, 2009, 06:26 AM

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...

**Rach75** · November 25th, 2009, 07:03 AM

depends on what your receiving we only get ftb b so no change for us except the maternity payment thing

**Ella** · November 25th, 2009, 07:30 AM

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...

**saslia** · November 25th, 2009, 08:30 AM

It jumps more when you go from 2 to 3

**~clover~** · November 25th, 2009, 08:36 AM

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.

**Ella** · November 25th, 2009, 12:38 PM

Hmm I will have to find out from Centrelink, can you do that online???

**~clover~** · November 25th, 2009, 12:42 PM

There is a rate estimater on there. I haven't used it, so not sure how it works.

**briggsy's girl** · November 25th, 2009, 01:44 PM

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

**~clover~** · November 25th, 2009, 01:46 PM

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