Apportioning hours of Child Care Subsidy (CCS) 007-20022042

Customers can choose how many hours of their CCS each service receives if:

• the child is eligible for CCS
• the child is enrolled at 2 or more services at the same time, and
• their eligible hours more than zero

This option lets customers allocate their hours to maximise the amount of subsidy they receive.

They must apportion their total eligible hours between services in whole hours.

It takes effect from the start of the next CCS fortnight.

See the Resources page for an example.

Customers need to contact the Families line if they want to apportion their CCS hours. This option is not available online.

Staff can create a new apportionment and vary or end current apportionment details. See Table 3 on the Process page for how to:

• start a new apportionment arrangement, or
• end a current apportionment arrangement, or
• vary an apportionment

This is the default option and processing of CCS entitlement will occur in the order that Attendance Reports are received from the child care service. This happens until all the eligible hours of subsidy are used.

Unused hours apportioned at a service are not 'transferrable' to another child care service. They will not be 'reallocated’ when CCS is balanced at the end of the year.

The arrangement will stop if there are changes to their eligible CCS hours or enrolment.

To cancel or vary an arrangement, customers need to contact straight away. Apportionment cannot be backdated.

A customer cannot request an apportionment instance to be deleted after it has been applied.

There may be instances where the apportionment end dates or becomes Inactive automatically.

Logically deleted apportionment instance can occur due to retrospective changes to Activity Test Details (ATD) or Recognised Participation Details (RPD) and will be treated as if the apportionment was never applied.

An existing apportionment will cease automatically where:

• the apportionment end date is reached
• a new enrolment is confirmed
• an enrolment is ceased
• child leaves customer care, or
• the customer’s CCS entitlement hours change including:
  • Changes to hours of subsidised care
  • Child eligibility
  • Customer eligibility, e.g. 2DL