Family Tax Benefit

This is a 2 part payment that helps with the cost of raising children.

Family Tax Benefit (FTB) is a payment from Services Australia.

Who can get it

To get this you must:

have a dependent child or full time secondary student aged 16 to 19 who isn’t getting a pension, payment or benefit like Youth Allowance
care for the child for at least 35% of the time
meet income and residency requirements.

There are 2 parts to FTB. Find out more about eligibility on the Services Australia website:

Find out more about how much you can get on the Services Australia website.

You’ll need to link Centrelink to your myGov account, if you haven't already.

Follow the steps to create a myGov account. After you’ve created one, you can link services to your account.

Call the families line on the Services Australia website.

Call the Centrelink multilingual phone service on 131 202 to speak with someone in your language.

Centrelink will be closed on:

Page last updated: 2 December 2024