Child Care Benefit
THE CHILD CARE BENEFIT EXPLAINED
CCB is assistance from the Government designed to reduce the
overall cost of child care for eligible families. The percentage of
benefit a family receives is determined by eligibility criteria,
the number of children you have in care and your household
income.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Your child is in care
- The child care service is Approved or Registered (Camp
Australia is Approved)
- Your child meets the immunisations requirements
- You or your partner meet residency requirements
- You and your partner must satisfy the work/study/training
test
Even if your income is too high to receive CCB, but you meet all
other eligibility criteria, from July 1 2008 linking your family to
the Service will entitle you to receive your Child Care Tax Rebate
(CCTR) on a quarterly basis.
THE CHILD CARE REBATE EXPLAINED
From 1 July 2008, if you meet the eligibility criteria for CCB
(regardless of income) the Government will provide you with 50% of
your out-of-pocket child care costs, up to $7,778 (indexed) per
child per year. If you are linked for CCB, you can receive this
payment on a quarterly basis.
What does this mean for you?
Based on this information, we advise that you contact the Family
Assistance Office (FAO) to register for CCB. If you qualify for
CCB, the FAO will inform Camp Australia of your CCB percentage and
we will apply this to your fees.
In doing this you also become eligible for the CCR to be paid to
you by the Government on a quarterly basis.
NEXT STEPS:
- Contact the Family Assistance Office on Ph: 13 61
50 and get individual Customer Reference Numbers (CRN) for
yourself and your children, then
- Contact us on Ph: 1300 105 343 and provide us with the CRn's
and dates of birth for yourself and your children - it's that
easy!
Camp Australia will then handle the rest of the administration
and work with the Family Assistance Office to apply any possible
rebates under the CCB and the CCR systems.
MORE INFORMATION:
- Visit the Office of
Early Childhood Education and Child Care
- Visit the Family Assistance Office
- Visit Centrelink
- Call the Family Assistance Office on 13 61 50
- Visit a Family Assistance Office (they're located in Medicare
offices and Centrelink Customer Service Centres
- Call the Teletypewriter Freecall 1800 810 856 services if your
are deaf or hearing impaired
- Call 13 12 02 if you need information in a language other than
English