How does the hours of my child care subsidy (CCS) work?

It's important to understand that your child’s care is based on a fortnight of care used.  Teamkids charges be session, so the total hours of each session will be used from your subsidy hours in that fortnight (not just the hours the child was in attendance on that day).  The two elements of the Childcare Subsidy are:

• Subsidy Percentage – For example, 85% (The percentage of care that will be paid for by Centrelink)

• Approved Hours Per Fortnight – For example, 100 hours per fortnight. (The number of hours care to which that subsidy percentage applies)

Please refer to the below examples to assist you to work out how to best use your child care subsidy hours entitlement.

Example One: If your child attends 5 before school and after school sessions per week, that totals 50 Hours care, which is within the allocated 100 hours above, meaning that all three days each week are subsidised at 85%. How?

Before and After school Care

Week One – 5 before school Sessions @2 Hours each = 10 Hours (5 x 2 hrs)

                      5 after school Sessions @3 Hours each = 15 Hours (5 x 3 hrs) 

Week Two –  5 before school Sessions @2 Hours each = 10 Hours (5 x 2 hrs)

                      5 after school Sessions @3 Hours each = 15 Hours (5 x 3 hrs)

Fortnightly Hours of care used = 25+25=50 Hours of Care.

Example Two: If your child attends 4 Vacation care sessions per week (based on a 12 hour session that totals 96 Hours care, which is within the allocated 100 hours above, meaning that all sessions are subsidised at 85%. How?

Vacation Care

Week One –  4 Vacation Care Sessions @12 Hours each = 48 Hours (4 x 12 hrs)

Week Two –  4 Vacation Care Sessions @12 Hours each = 48 Hours (4 x 12 hrs)                     

Fortnightly Hours of care used = 48+48=96 Hours of Care.

Example Three: If your child attends 5 Vacation care sessions per week (based on a 12 hour session that totals 120 Hours care, which is falls outside of the 100 hours above, meaning not all sessions will be subsidised at 85%. Why?

Vacation Care

Week One –  5 Vacation Care Sessions @12 Hours each = 60 Hours (5 x 12 hrs)

Week Two –  5 Vacation Care Sessions @12 Hours each = 60 Hours (5 x 12 hrs)                     

Fortnightly Hours of care used = 60+60=120 Hours of Care.

NOTE: This will mean that the 9th session for the week will only have subsidy applied to 4 hours of the session (meaning 8 hours is at full fee).  And 10th session will have no subsidy so will be at full fee.

It’s also important to note that fees payable are based on  your entitlements that are linked to your account and statements are generated automatically by our software provider, and our software integrates with the CCS platform at Services Australia/Centrelink.