Understanding Benefits: Multiple Birth Allowance

Multiple Birth Allowance is an extra payment to help you if you have a multiple birth.

Who Qualifies?
You can get Multiple Birth Allowance if you have three or more children who are born during the same birth for whom you receive Family Tax Benefit.

How much is it?
The Allowance can be added to your Family Tax Benefit. The Australian Government has announced that from 1 January 2008, families will remain eligible until the children turn 16 years of age, or for fulltime students, until the end of the calendar year in which they turn 18.

Parents of triplets will receive an additional $3,179.15 extra per year ($121.94 fortnightly).

Parents of quads or more are entitled to an additional $4237.65 each year ($162.54 p.f).

How to apply?
You do not need to make a separate claim for Multiple Birth Allowance, as it will be paid as part of your FTB.