Additional Child Care Subsidy for grandparents
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.
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.
Centrelink will be closed on:
- Wednesday 25 December 2024
- Thursday 26 December 2024
- Friday 27 December 2024
- Wednesday 1 January 2025.
Find information in more languages about Centrelink on the Services Australia website.