Transferring payments before they’ve started

If you transfer your payments before you start receiving them or the payment period starts, you can cancel the application to transfer. You’ll then receive the payments for the continuous period of 26 weeks. The payments will not transfer over.

Rich and Holly are parents of baby Riley. When Holly applied for parental leave payments, she also applied to transfer her payments to Rich after 12 weeks so that he could spend time with Riley, too.

Holly goes on paid parental leave 2 weeks before Riley is born to prepare for her arrival. After 10 weeks, Rich gets a promotion at work and they decide it would be best for Holly to stay home with Riley while Rich keeps working. Because Rich’s payments have not started, they can withdraw the transfer application.

Holly’s payments continue for the rest of the 26 weeks or until she goes back to work — whichever is earlier.