Every date matters: Know your critical deadlines
Calculate your exact Parental Leave Pay timeline, work tests, and application dates based on your baby's birth date.
What is it?
130 separate payments of $200.98 over a 2 year period, able to be allocated between partners.
Government co-contribution paid on top (from 1 July 2026).
What you need to know about getting the payment and making the most of it
Understand the fundamental steps and regulatory requirements for navigating your payment process with complete transparency.
Satisfying the Work Test
Ensure you meet the minimum hours of professional activity required during the specific work period to qualify for standard payment schemes.
Satisfying the Income Test
Verify your adjusted taxable income falls below the mandatory thresholds established by the current regulatory framework for this fiscal year.
6 Months Pay?
Well yes and no. It is 30 weeks at minimum wage, yes. It's also a chunk of money that can be paid to suit you. It can be paid 7 days a week. Get paid how it suits you.
Partner Overlap
Strategic distribution of benefits between partners. Both partners can receive payments simultaneously to maximise overall household outcomes while remaining compliant.
Stacking with other payments
You can receive Government payments at the same time as other employer leave payments if it suits you.
Weekends and Going Overseas
You can take payments on weekends. There are also rules allowing payment while overseas.
Employer Delivery
Getting paid via your employer keeps you linked to the workplace. Unfortunately you lose access to a lot of valuable payment options
Optimise for Tax
You have 2 years to take payments, and can allocate between you and your partner. Do the numbers to save on tax.
Making a complex system work for you
entitlemate helps families understand the complex government entitlements system and how it impacts them. There is nothing more complicated than Parental Leave Pay, and there is no time more challenging, both for your time and your finances, than having a new baby.
We built the entitlemate app to help families track and simulate tax, childcare costs, family payments, and safety nets all in one place.
Because having a baby is the first step for most families entering this complex system, we built this site to help you navigate and secure this critical payment. It is there to support you, but it will remain unclaimed unless you do the work to claim, and you could pay more tax than you need to if you don't plan the payments.