VIC: Parental Paid Leave / Baby Bonus / Others

Liamyour on 10/05/2017 - 08:51
Last edited 10/05/2017 - 08:54 by 1 other user

First Time Poster, Long Time Lurker.

In mid last year, I and my wife deciding to grow our family by planning for pregnancy. We heard that it is critical on the first trimester pregnancy. Since she work in the laboratory ( involving lots of chemicals ), so we decide that she should stop working and just concentrate on the pregnancy.

Therefore, in october last year, she quit her laboratory job ( after 5 years working as full time ). During her free time, she starting new hobby by record and post video to youtube ( which is still happening till now ). With lots of bless, she is pregnant by early december last year.

As for today, she is at her 24 weeks pregnancy ( according to the pregnancy apps ). A few days later, she got an contract offer ( approx 3months ) which to work in the office rather than the laboratory. She took it and she start on this monday.

The question that we have is:

1. is she eligible for Parental leave pay?
2. how about baby bonus or other stuff?

We check out the Parental Leave Pay from https://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/work-test… and it mention below:

• 10 of the 13 months before the birth or adoption of your child, and
• 330 hours in that 10 month period, which is just over 1 day a week, with no more than an 8 week gap between 2 consecutive working days

With her current condition, she will be able to work more than 330 hours within that contract. However, she only work roughly up to 3months before the birth of our child.

I hope that we are able to get advice from ozbargainers..

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  ZippyRoo on 10/05/2017 - 09:32

  She might not be eligible for the Paid Parental Leave because assuming she got the job at 24 weeks pregnant, and works for the next 26 weeks, that will only equate to six months. I'm assuming that the four months prior to that, she didn't work either. So she does not meet the 10 months out of 13 months work requirements. Also, if the contract is only for 3 months then she definitely won't be eligible.

  She should be able to get the newborn payments though. Also, after the baby is born, you might be eligible for the Family Tax Benefits, so look into those.

  Congrats on the pregnancy. Exciting times!

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    iamyour on 10/05/2017 - 09:47

    Thank you.. I will start looking at Newborn Payments as well as the Family Tax Benefits.

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  k-rokfm on 10/05/2017 - 09:34

  +1

  There is no more baby bonus, that has been replaced by paid parental leave. And as by the criteria that you stated above and on the HS website, you will not be eligable for PPL as your wife has not worked for 10 of the 13 months before the birth of your child.

  Give DHS a call to their helpcentre and talk to them on the phone, they may (like above) have another form of benefit they can find.

  Was your wife on any kind of centrelink payments after she finished working?

  EDIT: posted above beat me

  also to the above poster, 24 + 26 = a loooong pregnancy

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    iamyour on 10/05/2017 - 09:52

    I will ask her to call DHS later.. No, she was not on any kind of centerlink payments after she finished working. We have no clue about baby bonus or parental paid leave until she heard from her colleague on this monday (8/5).

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    ZippyRoo on 10/05/2017 - 10:12

    +1

    Oops, too early in the morning. :)

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      k-rokfm on 10/05/2017 - 10:30

      +1

      Haha yeah I wasn't sure if you just made a mistake or were trying to emphasise how long she would need to be working for lol

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  ExtraSalt on 10/05/2017 - 09:40

  Was she monitizing from Youtube? if so, could that be considered a working income?

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    iamyour on 10/05/2017 - 09:49

    monitizing? As for now, she is just trying to get lots of view for her post video ( free of ads ). Once she reach 10k view, then she might start adding ads on her video to get a little bit of income or will continue the free of ads video.

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      ExtraSalt on 10/05/2017 - 09:52

      opps *monetizing

      yep, you activate it on your youtube account through this link.

      https://www.youtube.com/account_monetization

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        iamyour on 10/05/2017 - 09:54

        owh.. that's brand new information. Thank you so much.. but she have not reach that much view yet. her maximum view for one of her videos is around 400. so still far away from able to start that :)

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  Frugal on 13/05/2017 - 22:07

  Don't forget the Dad/partner pay if you've been working?? It's 2 weeks pay (about $1100). Also entitled to health care card?? I suggest going in and talking to a Centrelink staff.

  And congrats! Exciting times.