Completing child support forms with Centrelink 277-51140000

A customer must provide their:

• name
• contact details
• Child Support Reference Number (CSRN) if known. This is 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 must:

• contact Child Support directly, via online or phone. Refer the customer to Child Support, or
• complete another Ending a child support assessment (CS1671) form

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, the customer must contact Child Support directly, via online or phone. Refer the customer to Child Support.

Common reasons:

• Reconciled or started living with the other parent
• The customer no longer believes the paying parent is a parent of the child
• There is a private arrangement for collecting child support made and the customer no longer needs 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 care or the child or the payer dies.

If the customer receives Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A at more than the base rate, the customer can only end an assessment in some cases. 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
• choose their own date

If the customer selects the date, they must indicate if they want Child Support to collect any child support owed to them.

If the customer wants Child Support to collect any arrears, the customer 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. For details, see Recording private maintenance income. The customer may ask Child Support to continue to collect these arrears.

The customer must sign and date the form after:

• checking it
• reading the declaration

The customer can lodge the form by:

• visiting any Centrelink Service Centre, or
• via post direct to Child Support (postal address of nearest office are on the back of the form)

Customers can fill in the form online and print it. The Resources page contains a link.