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This information is used in calculating family assistance, income support and concession card entitlement for customers who claim payments in relation to the child.

If a customer claims a payment in relation to the child or advises that the child's circumstances have changed, the child should be selected on the customer's record so that the details can be recorded. If the child is a Centrelink customer, child details must be recorded on the child's record.

Details recorded for the child will 'ripple' to each customer linked to the child's record.

Information recorded for the child can include:

• name, date of birth and gender
• proof of birth indicator
• birth registration indicator for parents of newborn children for Family Tax Benefit (FTB) when claiming Newborn Supplement (NBS) and Newborn Upfront Payment (NBU) and Parental Leave Pay (PPL)
• date of death, and the customer's delivery choice for the FTB bereavement payment
• Australian residence details, including temporary or permanent overseas absence
• care alignment details - for all changes in care arrangements, indicates the status of the assessment for transfer of information between Centrelink Master Program and the Child Support Agency for mutual customers child in customer care details, including the name of the customer and the period in care
• child in primary care details, including the name of the customer and the period in primary care
• child income - whether their income is below the dependant income limit for social security payments (the child income limit for FTB ceased to apply from 1 May 2014)
• child relationship - whether the customer is the principal carer of the child for income support payments, adoptive parent, or foster carer for family assistance
• Healthy Start for School health check details
• immunisation details for FTB for children under 20 years of age
• shared care details for family assistance and for social security payments
• student status/details for FTB