Family Assistance

21: NSW cuts funds to Welfare Rights Centre | April 16, 2013

The New South Wales Government has defended a decision to end funding for the Welfare Rights Centre. The centre helps individuals and families negotiate Centrelink decisions, with clients including vulnerable families, young people, those with disabilities, the unemployed and the …..

22: Coast mum given six years’ jail for $2m Centrelink fraud | April 12, 2013

A $2 million payment error was deposited into a Sunshine Coast mum’s bank account because a child support worker typed the date into the payment field on her computer…

23: School tax breaks and refunds | February 1, 2013

Sending a child to school is an expensive business, even if they go to a public school – there’s the uniform, the bags, the stationery, the shoes and so on. State and Federal governments recognise that school and going back to school at the beginning of the year can be an expensive time for parents and have some refunds and payments in place. Here are a few…

24: Child Care Rebate Paid Quarterly | January 30, 2013

Acting Minister for Human Services Anthony Albanese said the Child Care Rebate supported working parents by providing them with financial assistance to meet the costs of child care. “Of the 700,000 Australian families who receive the Child Care Rebate, about 340,000 choose to receive it quarterly,” Mr Albanese said. ..

25: New Schoolkids bonus “big improvement” say parents | January 29, 2013

The new back to school bonus government scheme has just been rolled out with 1.2 million families who are eligible for Family Tax Benefit Part A receiving up to $820 a year per child for education-related expenses. ..

26: Single parent pension warning an ‘error’ | January 14, 2013

Centrelink will contact tens of thousands of single parents who were wrongly told to destroy their concession cards after moving to Newstart dole payments…

27: Swan Rejects Call To Raise Single Parent Payment | January 3, 2013

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has rejected backbench calls for the Government to reinstate higher welfare payments for single parents…

28: SchoolKids Bonus payments and paternity leave to be introduced in January | December 30, 2012

PARENTS can expect a back-to-school January cash splash from the Gillard government with payments of up to $820 for every child…

29: Sole carers in cash bind | December 19, 2012

HUNDREDS of single parents in Geelong could be up to $100 a week worse off when they are pushed off the single-parent pension and on to the Newstart allowance in less than two weeks…