Additional Child Care Subsidy for grandparents

This gives grandparents and great grandparents extra help with the cost of approved child care.

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 or your partner must:

  • get Child Care Subsidy
  • get a certain Services Australia payment
  • be the grandparent of the child
  • have 65% or more care of the child
  • make the day to day decisions about the child’s care, welfare and development.

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 Additional Child Care Subsidy for grandparents 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 Additional Child Care Subsidy for grandparents online.

Sign in to myGov and start a claim

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.

Page last updated: 23 January 2024