DP wanting to be a SAHD! centrelink question!!

[maddysmummy]

DP is hating his job at the moment and i STUPIDLY said that i could go to work full time and he stay at home for a while! it really dosent bother me to work full time again be good company!!

well my question is do you lose centrelink payments if i work full time and DP stays at home with DD?? or parenting payment is for both genders???

[melham74]

He can claim it all, is a lot of mucking around you basically have to start again.

[MantaRay]

It doesn't matter which of you is the SAH parent, it works on the lowest income earner. As Mel has said though, there could be some difficulty around the change-over - ie you will both have an income for one tax year and if that is higher than a certain amoung - $4K from memory, you will lose benefits. Of course you can get around this by making the change at the start of the tax year (ie July 1 or thereabouts). Also it would be worth ringing Centrelink to ask them, as there may be some other way around it in your circumstances. GL.