Additional Child Care Subsidy for financial hardship
Services Australia pays the subsidy to your child care provider to reduce the fees you pay.
Who can get it
To get this payment, you must:
- get Child Care Subsidy
- have experienced temporary financial hardship due to an event that happened in the last 6 months
- have a substantially reduced ability to pay child care fees.
Find out more about who can get it and how much you can get on the Services Australia website.
How to get it
If you don’t already get Child Care Subsidy
You can apply for Temporary Financial Hardship within your Child Care Subsidy claim. The option will only appear if you’re eligible for it.
If you already get Child Care Subsidy
You can claim Temporary Financial Hardship online.
You'll need to link Centrelink to your myGov account, if you haven’t already.
If you don’t have a myGov account
Follow the steps to create a myGov account. After you’ve created one, you can link services to your account.
If you can’t claim online
Call the families line on the Services Australia website.
Help in your language
Call the Centrelink multilingual phone service on 131 202 to speak with someone in your language.
Find information in more languages about Centrelink on the Services Australia website.