Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) (transition to work) 007-17103148

Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) (transition to work) is intended to provide additional assistance with the cost of child care for families transitioning from income support by engaging in work, study or training activities.

This support provides eligible customers with:

• subsidised hours of child care based on their Activity Test result (or the lowest Activity Test result where the customer is partnered), and
• a subsidy equal to 95% of the fee charged, up to 95% of the hourly rate cap

ACCS (Transition to Work) is fourth in the hierarchy of ACCS payments.

A customer may be eligible for ACCS (transition to work) if they are first assessed as eligible for CCS and:

• receive an ACCS (transition to work) eligible income support payment
• have a combined family income of equal to or less than the CCS lower income threshold
• meet the ACCS (transition to work) Job Plan requirements
• undertake an ACCS (transition to work) approved activity, for more than 8 hours per fortnight which must also be recorded as a CCS activity
• the time limits for the approved activity has not been exceeded

Customers can apply for ACCS (transition to work):

• at the time of completing an online or staff assisted claim for Child Care Subsidy (CCS)
• if already receiving CCS, as a standalone application using their online account
• in limited circumstances, complete an offline (paper) FA085 Application for Additional Child Care Subsidy (transition to work). See the Resources page for a link to the FA085