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Factors Affecting Child Care Subsidy Eligibility

Combined Household Income
The number of children under 5 you have in child care.
The activity level of your family (e.g. hours of paid work, volunteering, studying, self-employed work, actively job seeking)
The type of childcare service you are enrolled in ( Our childcare centres are registered for the Child care Subsidy)
The fees you pay for childcare (hourly rate caps apply for each type of service)

Minimising Disruption to your Child Care Subsidy

We recommend families complete the following steps to minimise disruptions to CCS entitlements:

Give Centrelink your family income estimate to receive the correct CCS percentage and avoid an overpayment.
Check your activity hours to receive the correct amount of hours of CCS per fortnight.
Make sure your child meets immunisation requirements.

Once Your Enrolment is Submitted to Centrelink

If you are able to view your child’s enrolment details on your Centerlink account, please note the following:

- The enrolment start date displayed on your myGov account is the date the enrolment was submitted to Centerlink and is not reflective of your child’s actual start date. This is done to ensure that families receive their Child Care Subsidy from the child’s actual start date and eliminates any further delays with subsidy payments.

Activity Levels

The Child Care Subsidy percentage your family is entitled to also depends on your family’s activity levels.
Recognised activities include

- Paid work including being self employed
- Paid or unpaid leave, including paid or unpaid parental or maternity leave
- Unpaid work in a family business
- Unpaid work experience or unpaid internship
- Actively setting up a business
- Doing an approved course of education or study
- Doing training to improve work skills or employment prospects
- Actively looking for work
- Volunteering
- Other activities on a case by case basis

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