Benefits of children born after immigrating to Australia

Benefits of children born after immigrating to Australia

Newborn welfare

Newborn welfare subsidies provide short-term subsidi

Benefits of children born after immigrating to Australia

Benefits of children born after immigrating to Australia

Newborn welfare

Newborn welfare subsidies provide short-term subsidies for newborns to reduce the pressure on parents.

From 13 weeks after the start of pregnancy, you can get a one-time subsidy of 13 weeks at most. The premise of the application is that if you apply for paid maternity leave, you will automatically lose your eligibility to apply for this welfare subsidy.

The amount of subsidy is as follows:

First child allowance: 16 18.89 Australian dollars. If the first child is multiple, each child can get 16 18.89 Australian dollars;

Second child or above: 540.54 Australian dollars;

Newborn suit

From 20 19 1, babies born in NSW will receive a free newborn suit from the government. This benefit has nothing to do with family income.

Not only babies born in NSW, if you have a home address in NSW, you can apply for this baby gift package even if your child was born in other states and overseas.

This baby gift package contains some daily necessities for newborns, such as diapers, thermometers, washable breast pads, fungicides, sleeping bags, first aid manuals, children's toothbrushes and so on.

This is part of the "Parents Package" of A $654.38+57 billion announced by the NSW government in the national budget.

Paid maternity leave

Provide paid maternity leave to the working parents of newborns, paying $695 per week for 18 weeks.

This welfare and newborn welfare subsidy are optional.

Parents who apply for paid maternity leave in the name of their children will be disqualified from applying for newborn welfare allowance.

Conditions: the applicant has worked for at least 10 months before the birth of the child (the applicant has worked for at least 330 hours and worked at least one day a week during 10 months).

The welfare of the father or partner.

Fathers can get $657 a week (before tax) unpaid leave to take care of their children, with a maximum subsidy of two weeks.

The condition is that you meet the income test (the annual income is less than $65,438+050,000) and the asset test, and the living condition is that you have lived in Australia for 65,438+004 weeks before receiving the subsidy.

Parenting allowance)

This subsidy is provided for poor parents who need to raise their children, and they can enjoy the child-raising allowance until 18 years old.

Single-parent families receive $762.4 every two weeks.

Two-parent families receive $492.8 every two weeks, and separated families receive $590.4 every two weeks.

Child care grant

On July 2, 20 18, the Australian government replaced the previous two kinds of childcare subsidies with childcare subsidies.

For families whose annual income is less than 65,438 yuan+085,000 yuan, the subsidy ceiling of 7,000 500 yuan will be lifted.

For families whose annual income exceeds $65,438+$085,000, the maximum subsidy per child will be raised from $7,500 to $65,438+$00,000 in each fiscal year.

Families with incomes below $65,765,438+00 can receive subsidies, and the amount of subsidies is 85% of their child care expenses;

Families with incomes between $65,438+$070,765,438 and $250,000 can receive subsidies to pay 50% of their childcare expenses;

Families earning more than $350,000 will no longer receive subsidies.

Further reading: introduction to Australian pensions

Australian pension is a government welfare and an income guarantee for the elderly in Australia after retirement. Whether you have a retirement provident fund or have never worked in Australia, you can get it from the welfare department when you are over 65. This does not need to pay any money to the government or an institution. This is the welfare of the elderly. Whether you can get a pension or not depends on the income and assets of the applicant to meet the requirements of living conditions. The pension is linked to the inflation rate, adjusted every two years and received every two weeks. Pensioners can get preferential medical drugs and other health benefits. Other benefits provided by the government to pensioners include reduced transportation fees, local taxes, electricity charges and car registration fees.

Age requirements for application:

You must be 65 years old or above.

According to the date of birth, the eligible ages are as follows:

1 952 July1to1953 February 31–65 years and 6 months.

1 954 65438+1October1to1955 June 30th–66 years old.

1 955 July1to1956 February 3 1-66 years and 6 months.

From 1957 65438+ 10/0/-67 years old.

Apply for living conditions

1. When applying, you must be a permanent resident of Australia.

2. You have lived in Australia continuously for at least 65,438+00 years, or the cumulative residence time has exceeded 65,438+00 years, of which the continuous residence time is not less than 5 years, unless the special circumstances are as follows:

Refugees or those who previously held permanent residence visas in the form of refugees may be exempted from the residence requirement of 2 years or 10 years;

Before being eligible to apply for a pension, he has received government allowances, including spouse allowance and widow allowance;

Or if you are a woman, you and your spouse/partner were Australian residents for two years before applying for a pension, but you became a widow during this period.