Parenting Payment (Single)

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PARENTING PAYMENT (DOHS)

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Overview

Parenting Payment provides financial help for people who are primary carers of children, either as a parent, grandparent or foster carer.

You may qualify for this payment if:

Ø you are single and you care for at least one child aged under 8 years or,

Ø you have a partner and you care for at least one child aged under 6 years.

Special provisions apply to children aged under 16 if you have been in receipt of Parenting Payment prior to 1 July 2006. These special provisions will cease from 1 July 2013.

Parenting Payment is means tested.

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This page was last edited on the 30 December 2020

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