Completing the Ending a child support assessment (CS1671) 277-51140030

A customer needs to provide their name and contact details as well as their child support reference number if known. This is listed on letters from Child Support.

Record the name of the person who is required to pay the child support payments.

To end a child support assessment for more than one paying parent, customers are to contact Child Support directly, either online or by phone. Refer the customer to Child Support. For contact details, see Child Support or the customer can complete another Ending a child support assessment (CS1671).

List all children (and their dates of birth) of the parent named at question 7 for whom the customer no longer wants child support assessed.

Ending assessment: The customer can end an assessment for one child and continue assessment for another.

If the customer wants to stop Child Support collection but continue an assessment for a child, they are to contact Child Support directly, either online or by phone. Refer the customer to Child Support. For contact details, see Child Support.

Common reasons:

• reconciled or started living with other parent
• they no longer believe the paying parent is a parent of the child
• a private arrangement for collecting child support has been made and they no longer require Child Support to calculate the amount of child support payable

Child Support can end an assessment without a request from the payee if the child leaves their care or the child or the payer dies.

If the customer receives Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A at more than the base rate, they can only end an assessment in certain circumstances. See Effect on Family Tax Benefit (FTB) where the customer elects to suspend or end a child support assessment.

The customer can ask Child Support to work out the date to end the assessment so that there is no child support overpayment or underpayment, or the customer can select the date.

If the customer selects the date themselves, they need to indicate whether or not they want Child Support to collect any child support owed to them.

If they want Child Support to collect any arrears, they can ask for the full amount to be collected or indicate a lesser amount. Note: if an individual opts to change from Child Support collect to private collect, they can elect to collect any arrears of child support owing to them. This has the effect of discharging Child Support from the responsibility for collecting the arrears. Instead the individual is responsible for collecting the arrears, this needs to be recorded as child support income. The discharged arrears amount is not included in the entitlement data from Child Support therefore the discharged amount will need to be added to the Child Support assessed amount and manually coded as the total actual amount. Refer to Recording private maintenance income for further details. The customer may ask Child Support to continue to collect these arrears.

The customer must sign and date the form after checking it and reading the Declaration.

Customers can lodge the form at any Centrelink Service Centre, or send it directly to Child Support (postal address of nearest office on back of form).

Customers can complete and print the form online. The Resources page contains a link.