Payment period is continuous

Only 1 person can get parental leave payments at a time, so families need to decide who will take the payments first. The payments are paid for 1 continuous period of 26 weeks. For example, the birth mother might take the first 15 weeks of payments, and her partner might take the remaining 11 weeks. Each person can only have 1 period of payments — it’s not possible to transfer the payments back and forth.