Transferring payments if you’re not giving birth

If you’re not giving birth to the child, you and your partner or spouse must have worked for an average of at least 10 hours a week over any 26 of the 52 weeks before the first date either of you become primary carer. This means that if you’re taking the payments first and are going to transfer them to your spouse or partner to take later, their eligibility for the payments is based on the date you become primary carer, not the date the payments transfer over.

If your spouse or partner is taking the payments first and transferring them to you later, your eligibility for the payments is based on the date they become primary carer, not the date the payments transfer to you.