Dependents listed on a customer's concession card 101-06020040

Shared care - level of care required

Customers who have shared care arrangements are required to have a certain percentage of care to enable the shared care dependents to be listed on the parent/guardian's concession card.

Table 1: This table shows the percentage of care required for concession cardholders with shared care arrangements.

Payment/Concession type	Minimum level of care required
Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Low Income Health Care Card (LIC)	Minimum 14% actual care
Parenting Payment (PP)	Minimum of 50% care. However, care is considered 'equal' when the difference in care is less than 10%. In cases of 'equal' care i.e. (46/54) the principal carer with less than 50% care will be entitled to have the child listed on their concession card. Generally, the person who has the majority of care of a PP child is entitled to have the child listed on their HCC. PP customers who have a Regular Care Child will be eligible to have the child listed on their HCC.
JobSeeker Payment (JSP) Youth Allowance (YA) (job seeker) Farm Household Allowance (FHA)	At least 14% care
Special Benefit (SpB)	At least 30% care
Age Pension (AGE) Disability Support Pension (DSP) Carer Payment (CAR)	At least 1% care
Youth Allowance (YA) (full-time student) ABSTUDY Austudy	No defined minimum percentage of care, discretionary based on whether the child is 'wholly or substantially' in the cardholder's care.

End Reason codes

Dependent Partner End Reason codes for LIC, FST, EHC, HCC and PCC cards

Table 2

Reason Code	Description
CNE	Customer Not Entitled
MAN	Manual Override
NIA	Not in Australia
UNL	Unlinked

Child End Reason codes for LIC, FST, EHC, HCC and PCC cards

Table 3

Reason Code	Description
C19	FTB Child age 19
CNE	Customer Not Entitled
DEA	Death
MAN	Manual Override
NFS	Not Full Time Secondary Student
NFY	Not an FTB Child of Claimant
NIA	Not in Australia
NQE	No Qualifying Entitlement
SSN	Not an SSA (Social Security Act) Dependant Child of Claimant