Services Australia warns 411000 families on 30 June 2026 income deadline
Services Australia is reminding 170,000 Family Tax Benefit families and 241,000 Child Care Subsidy families to confirm their 2024-25 income by 30 June 2026. Families who miss the deadline risk losing top-up payments and, in some cases, having to repay money already received.
Family Tax Benefit deadline
For Family Tax Benefit recipients, missing 30 June means more than losing extra money. If a family does not confirm its income in time, it must repay all of the Family Tax Benefit it received in 2024-25 and will not get any additional top-up, arrears or supplement payments. A family that was planning to lodge a lump sum claim will be too late after 30 June.
Child Care Subsidy payments
The same deadline applies to 241,000 families receiving Child Care Subsidy. If income is not confirmed, Child Care Subsidy payments will stop from 6 July, and families may have to pay full child care fees. If income is confirmed after 6 July, they will not be back paid for any payments they missed.
How to confirm income
To confirm 2024-25 family income, a person and their partner, if they have one, need to lodge their 2024-25 tax return with the Australian Taxation Office. People who do not need to lodge a tax return can instead tell Services Australia they are not required to lodge through their Centrelink online account on myGov or the Express Plus Centrelink app, where they should select More from the home screen and then Advise tax non-lodgement.
The ATO website can be used to work out whether a tax return is required. For families that rely on both payments, the deadline now decides whether they keep their full entitlements for 2024-25 or face repayment and suspended Child Care Subsidy from early July.
