The new Child Support Scheme and changes to Family Assistance
Estimating what your new payments might be
Estimating your new child support payments
You will receive your new child support assessment, which will apply from 1 July 2008, between March and mid-May 2008.
In the meantime, you may be able to use an online estimator tool or the worksheet to work out what your child support or family assistance payments might be from 1 July 2008.
Child Support—Family Assistance online
estimator
This service may give you an estimate of how much
child support you will pay or receive, the amount of family assistance you may
receive, or if you have less than 35 per cent care of your children, the amount
of Rent Assistance you may receive.
This service can't estimate your current child support or family assistance payments, or compare old and new estimates.
Who can use it?
You can use this service if:
- you have one child support assessment only
- you and the other parent don't have new children living with you
- the Child Support Agency uses the child support formula to work out your assessment
- you know the other parent's details, such as their income.
Who can't use it?
This service can't estimate payments for every family situation, such
as:
- if you or the other parent have children from more than one previous relationship
- if you are a non-parent carer
- if the other parent is deceased
If your situation is like this, you may be able to use the child support worksheet.
Child support worksheet
You can use a worksheet to help you
estimate what your new child support assessment might be from 1 July 2008.
If you don't know some of the other parent's details you won't be able to use the worksheet.
Also, the worksheet can only give you an estimate—the Child Support Agency will work out your new payments and send you a new child support assessment before May 2008.
If you don't know the other parent's details, such as their income, you won't be able to use the estimator or worksheet.
If you have two or more child support assessments, the worksheet may be difficult for you to use and the estimator will not work for you.
But don't worry, CSA will work out your child support and issue you with a new assessment between March and May 2008.We will work your child support out for
you
You don't have to work out your new child support payments yourself. The Child
Support Agency will work it out for you and send you a new child support
assessment.