The new Child Support Scheme and changes to Family Assistance
Your guide to the new Child Support Scheme
Reference guide: Go to the information you need
About the changes to the Child Support Scheme
- Why the Scheme is changing
- A new way of working out child support
- What are the changes?
- What you need to do now
- Information and support
- Useful contacts
- New child support terms
The new child support formula
- Your income
- Self-support amount
- Costs of children
- Costs of children tables
- The new formula: different family situations
- How we work out your child support
- Recognising care of the children
- Estimating child support
- Child support tables
Other changes to the Scheme
- Family Tax Benefit (& here, here, here, here)
- Other types of family assistance, including Child Care Benefit
- Estimating family assistance
- Child support agreements
- Minimum child support payments
- Getting back on track after separation
- If you decide to get back together
Changes already in place
Your circumstances
Important
information for people receiving family assistance is highlighted like this
throughout this product.

