Child Miscellaneous Circumstances (CHM) screen 102-05050110

Use the CHM screen to record details for a dependent child for family assistance and Parenting Payment (PP) purposes.

• In Event Date field, key the child's relationship start date (for example, the child's date of birth for biological parents, the date the child was adopted for adoptive parents or date they became a foster child)
• Update relevant fields:
• Adopted FAO
• Foster child FAO
• Principal Carer Type
• DOP Sav Prov
• DOP Stu Sav Prov
• Key Source and DOR fields
• In Action field, key 'I'nsert to add new details, 'C' to correct details or 'D' to delete details
• Check other details for child before finalising activity on the Assessment Results (AR) screen
• Record details on a DOC

When valid values are entered for an event date, the value will display on that line as unprotected data and can be corrected or deleted. As new details are entered for new event dates, previous details will display on the new lines and will be protected. This means that all applicable details will display on the line with the most recent event date. Data can only be corrected or deleted on the line where it is unprotected (the line that has the relevant event date).

This field indicates whether a customer is eligible for family assistance or Paid Parental Leave scheme payments for a child entrusted into care as part of the adoption process.

A new child record should be created for an adopted child if the child was not previously known to the customer or linked on the customer's record, even if a record exists for the child. This is for privacy reasons. For information about this and other privacy measures that must be followed, for example, renaming the current child record, see Pre-processing checks for standalone and combined claims for family assistance and/or Paid Parental Leave payments and/or Claiming payments for children entrusted to care as part of the process of adoption or surrogacy.

• If the child has been legally adopted by the customer or their current partner, key 'Y'es in the Adopted FAO field
• If the child was adopted from overseas, key 'Y'es in the Adopt outside Aust field and the date the child arrived in Australia in the Arrival Date field. Leave these fields blank if the child was not adopted from overseas
• Key Adoption Type field:
• 'KNW' (Known Adoption) - the customer knows the child and family before they adopt, for example, long term foster child, biological child of their partner, or a niece or nephew
• 'LOC' (Local Adoption) - the customer did not know the child before the adoption process commenced. Generally arranged by a formal adoption authority. Only for children born/living in Australia
• 'OVS' (Overseas Adoption) - the customer did not know the child before the adoption process commenced and the child is adopted from overseas. Generally arranged by the adoption authority of the country the child resides in or formal adoption authority in Australia

If a Double Orphan Pension (DOP) child is keyed as adopted, check that the Child Double Orphan Pension (CHDP) screen also reflects this.

This field indicates whether the child is a foster child and therefore may qualify for a Health Care Card (HCC) to be issued in the child's name to the foster carers who receive FTB, but do not qualify for an automatic HCC through their FTB. See Foster Child Health Care Card (FST).

Key 'Y'es for family assistance and HCC purposes if the child is considered a foster child of the customer.

Use this field to record and display the relationship between the child and the principal carer for PP, JobSeeker Payment (JSP), Youth Allowance (YA) and Special Benefit (SpB).

Key the correct option from the list below. For example, if 'FOS' is keyed, this may automatically create a non-biological parent exemption for child support.

• 'NAT' - Natural/ artificial conception/ legal surrogacy
• 'ADT' - Adoptive parent, formal legal responsibility
• 'STE' - Step-parent, current partner is a legal parent
• 'REL' - Relative, for example, grandparent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle
• 'FOS' - Informal foster care: informal arrangement
• 'FSF' - Formal foster care: formal, appointed by the state or territory welfare authority but without formal legal responsibility
• 'FRE' - Friend

An exemption from mutual obligation requirements may be granted where a principal carer is a registered and active foster carer.

For further information, see:

• Foster care and principal carers
• Assessment of dependent children, additional income free area and child income under social security law
• Principal carer of a dependent child

This field indicates that the customer may be entitled to the Double Orphan Pension (DOP) savings provision.

Note: this field was also previously used to record entitlement to the Child Disability Allowance (CDA) savings provision.

This field will indicate that Double Orphan Pension (DOP) can be paid for a student who receives Youth Allowance (YA).

DOP can be paid for a student who receives YA, and before 1 July 1998:

• received DOP, and
• qualified for Austudy, and
• was transferred to YA when YA replaced Austudy

If the student qualifies in this category, DOP is payable until the student turns 22, is no longer entitled to YA, or ceases full-time study, whichever occurs first.

See Double Orphan Pension (DOP).