Advice on Australia's Family Tax Benefit A and B from Centerlink please?

do you have to declare why it is that only the father is working, and why the mother is not working?





i want to be a stay at home mother, but can only do this if i qualify for these benefits.


I currently work full time and am 14wks pregnant. i am worried that if i resign once our baby is born, centerlink will not qualify me as able to receive these benefits because i did have full time work.Advice on Australia's Family Tax Benefit A and B from Centerlink please?
I am pretty sure that even John Howard wasn't expecting you to go to work with a 3 week old baby. the government assumes that the mother will be staying at home to care for baby and husband will continue to work.





You will automatically get FTB A and if your partners income is at a certain level you will be part B too. I think the threshold is 90K or somewhere near that. it is all measured by an income ratio.





You can call centrelink and talk to them about it, they ask for your customer ref number, you probably wont have one yet as you generally go in after you have had the baby and do all the paper work.





You could also try to figure out the ATO website, but is isn't easy.





Don't panic, you have ages before any of this becomes an issue, maybe speak to an account at tax time to get some good advice before you finish up work





check out the Centrelink web.