The Albanese Labor Government today announced a much-needed relief to Australia’s single mother families- the raising of the Single Parenting Payment youngest child age cut off from eight to fourtee ...

Everything you need to know about the Albanese Government’s abolishing of ParentsNext, and the pausing of mutual obligations and participation requirements. For many Australian single mums who a ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Howard and Gillard’s single parent pension cut to be restored? By Jason Bryce Next Tuesday the Treasurer Jim Chalmers will ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist The ultimate guide to Australian single mum Centrelink benefits & more UPDATED: May 2023 Centrelink, State Government, We ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Am I really single? At what point does having a relationship affect your Centrelink benefits? Plenty of couples split up and ...

There are a lot of great educational benefits to homeschooling your child or teenager – but did you know that there are extra Centrelink benefits too? There are many reasons why families may wis ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Parental Leave increased Home loan scheme doubled Everything single parents need to know about the new $250 cash payment: Who ...

ParentsNext is a compulsory Centrelink program for parents with children under 6 who receive the Centrelink Parenting Payment. It is stated by the government as intended to assist single mums to prepa ...

Singlemum.com.au and several other concerned organisation representatives, professionals and individuals converged on Parliament House in Canberra either in person or via Zoom in on Friday to raise co ...

This is a budget for women and single parents with plenty of new funding and cash for people in difficult circumstances. But once again the government neglects to raise Jobseeker or the Single Parent ...

Can my ex apply too? Are my kids too old? What if I owned a house with my ex prior? All you need to know about the new single parent home owner 2 percent deposit scheme On Tuesday the 11th of May, the ...

Everything you need to know about this week’s announcement of a rise in JobSeeker plus how single mums are reacting….  By Jason Bryce From 1 April 2020, the Morrison government is raising ...

Parents receiving Family Tax Benefit are among the winners in Budget 2020, if you can call anyone a winner in this year of crisis and disasters By Jason Bryce Single mum guide to Budget 2020   More c ...

The next phase of the winding down of government Coronavirus supplements and benefits has been announced By Singlemum Staff  Jobseeker Coronavirus Supplement extended, but reduced more than half Inc. ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Coronavirus, EOFY and Centrelink for single mums This is the most unusual end of financial year in living memory and we all have a milli ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Why am I missing out of the second $750 economic support payment? Centrelink Update for single mums By Jason Bryce Most single mums wonâ ...

Two State rebates you must apply for this tax year – and they are closing soon! There are two State Governments rebates closing this tax year single mums need to know about. They won’t be aut ...

Check your State- Our round-up of new COVID-19 State grants, concessions & payments In addition to the Federal Government Centrelink stimulus COVID-19 welfare payments and benefits, some of the St ...

When do I get it? Why can’t I see it? Is it taxable? Should I update my Family Tax Estimate? Here are the answers to your most-asked Centrelink Coronavirus payment questions! One thing is for sure r ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance **Update – free child care will be replaced with a subsidy from 12 July 2020** Working mums can get free child care if … Single ...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 22 MARCH – UPDATED 2 APRIL 2020  Get ready for the second wave of government Coronavirus payments –  there are two new main payments –  but who is eligible fo ...

UPDATED – ORIGINAL POSTED MARCH 27 Due to COVID19 The government have suspended  Centrelink Mutual Obligations, however what a lot of Newstart (Jobseeker) and ParentsNext recipients don’t rea ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance There are two major new payments for single mums and other people that have been announced in the last week. Firstly, two $750 Economic ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Coronavirus and your CASH – Update Every parent has a million concerns right now but the main one is getting through the 2020 Coro ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance ScoMo’s $750 cash handout Single mums and other Centrelink beneficiaries will be paid $750 directly into their bank accounts in the fo ...

Single mum support group The best of the Australian single mum Facebook support group This article first appeared as a post in our single mum support Facebook group and was republished, with permissio ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Is the government rolling out the cashless welfare card nationally? Singlemum.com.au has been following the development of Ce ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist The end of the financial year is within sight and that means tax time! But hang on, you may not need to lodge a tax return at ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Single Parent budgeting Budget 2019 – what single parents need to know What is in Budget 2019 for single parents? Every ...

 In July 2018 the Federal Government expanded its pilot of ParentsNext, a program for young parents to become employment-ready based.  At a first glance this seems a step-in-the-right-direction as w ...

Expert Opinion Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Centrelink Third Party Relationship Verification Answers to the two big questions every single mum is asking By Jason Bryce | 12 Fe ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist ‘Blame, Shame and Punishment’ The Big Six Centrelink 2018 changes every single mum needs to understand Single mum ...

Thousands of kids in single parent families (and two-parent families), are cared for by their grandparents, either in short term arrangements or for years and often until they are adults. But what sup ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist The news Centrelink didn’t tell single parents – until now By Jason Bryce | 16 May 2017 The government announced ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist By Jason Bryce | 13 May 2017 A giant new Australian payments platform is gradually coming online in 2017, giving government t ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Government Orders Single Parents To Be Verified By Jason Bryce | 10 May 2017 Single parents will now have to provide ‘v ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Seven big changes to family and child care benefits What they mean for your family budget By Jason Bryce | 25 March 2017 Shar ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Family Tax Benefit supplements saved …but what now for child care benefits? By Jason Bryce | 14 February 2017 This is a ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Family Tax Benefit supplements saved …but what now for child care benefits? By Jason Bryce | 14 February 2017 Share Thi ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Centrelink Family Tax Benefits updated What the Omnibus Bill means for you By Jason Bryce | 09 February 2017 A concerted and dete ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Single mothers targeted by Centrelink’s robo-debt campaign 5 ways to avoid being branded a Centrelink welfare cheat By ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Centrelink 2017 cuts single parents should know about Another year of tightening the belt for single mums By Jason Bryce | 12 ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Centrelink Family Payment Cuts Are Back They’re back…the Family Payment cuts that won’t die… By Jason ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Are you living in poverty and don’t even know it? Single parents just get on with the job of feeding the kids and looki ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Young mums at the frontline of new Centrelink ‘revolution’ Young single parents have been identified as a target ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist The new deal between Labor and Liberal is in Family Tax Benefit cuts – are you losing money? By Jason Bryce | 14 Septem ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Single parent must read 10 government cuts that you didn’t know about By Jason Bryce | 08 September 2016 We all know th ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist When will I get my Schoolkids Bonus? The last Schoolkids Bonus EVER is coming soon Here’s how much you get – and ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist When will I get my Schoolkids Bonus? The last Schoolkids Bonus EVER is coming soon Here’s how much you get – and ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist The single parent’s need-to-know Budget 2016 guide Your 5 minute guide to the budget! By Jason Bryce | 05 May 2016 Six ...

Government single parent grants and schemes The Child Dental Benefits Schedule is Closing Singlemum.com.au staff | 04 May 2016 The government’s free child dental scheme is ending soon The govern ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Centrelink welfare cuts – government targets single parents again Turnbull proposing to cut $48 a week from single pare ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist When will I get my Schoolkids Bonus? Happy Christmas – This is your last Schoolkids Bonus You might need to take action to ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist UPDATE – Centrelink Eftpos Card trials in three areas voted in through Parliament tonight Final vote numbers – 37 ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Healthy Welfare Card hangs in the balance Will parliament pass Tony Abbott’s cashless welfare card for parents and the ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Single parent income-management trial First trial towns for Healthy Welfare card announced Is Income Management coming to you ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Schoolkids Bonus payment date information (and how to check you will get it!) By Jason Bryce | 28 June 2015 DON’T panic ...

Meet Joe Hockey’s “welfare-rich” single mums These single parents want to know where their $66,000 in disposable income is. Joe Hockey can you help? By Jason Bryce | 24 May 2015 Shar ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist The complete single parent’s guide to Budget 2015 Joe Hockey ‘puts the boot into single parents’ Looking f ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Has the government declared war on stay at home mums? Morrison denies discrimination as mothers reject government reformsR ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Update on the future of Family Tax Benefit Part B Our story about proposed changes to Family Tax Benefits has really hit a n ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Which families are losing their Family Tax Benefits? A number of changes to Family Tax Benefits this year means thousands of ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Shock poll verdict on Centrelink income management Single mothers vote on Tony Abbott’s Healthy Welfare Eftpos card Hu ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Parenting Payment & Newstart Income-Management Poll Have your say on welfare income management Vote now on the Healthy ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Single parent anger over Centrelink income management A healthy debate about welfare Thousands of single parents are angry a ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government thinks single parents and unemployed people can’t be trusted with their ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Australian Single Parent Must-Read Upcoming Welfare Reforms Is Scott Morrison planning to abolish the single parents pension ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist The 2015 Schoolkids Bonus Guide Everything you need to know about the Schoolkids Bonus Has the Schoolkids Bonus been changed ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist A single parent guide to January 1st Centrelink & Medicare changes Are you ready for the big Centrelink & Medicare ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist The top ten 2014 Budget cuts you didn’t know about Single parent must-know Budget cuts you weren’t expecting By J ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist The Single Parent Guide to the 2014 Federal Budget You may be 10K worse off next year By Jason Bryce | 14 May 2014 Spoiler A ...

Single Parent Budget 2014 News Family Tax Benefit B – how much could I lose? SingleMum.com.au | 14 May 2014 Low-income single parents of children aged 6-18yrs impacted Share 2014-2015 Budget to ...

10 Stories of Single Mothers premier SingleMum.com.au Report | 31 March 2014 Share Mothers converge on Canberra to fight single parent Newstart poverty On 25 March SingleMum.com.au attended the world ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Shock – Schoolkids Bonus Used For School Costs ‘There’s no beer and skittles here Tony’ say single m ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Schoolkids Bonus – Have your say! SingleMum.com.au Schoolkids Bonus UPDATE and Poll SingleMum.com.au and Jason Bryce | ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Schoolkids Bonus –to be paid in January 2014 Income Support Bonus also under threat Jason Bryce | 15 December 2013 Sha ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Single parents to Tony Abbott: Don’t leave us behind Families have a right to be concerned about the new government an ...

The Liberal Party on single parents: past, present and future Single Parents on Newstart Philip Mendes | 02 October 2013 Share For more than 30 years, the Liberal Party has promoted hostility towards ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Single Parent Budget report 2013 Single parents bitterly disappointed by Wayne Swan Jason Bryce | 16 May 2013 Share Never has ...

Greens Introduce Bill To Increase Newstart Senator Rachel Siewert writes exclusively for SingleMum.com.au Senator Rachel Siewert | Australian Greens Whip & Senator for WA | 28 April 2013 Share it ...

Expert Opinion Panel Dr Elspeth McInnes – Family violence, child abuse and child protection expert Single Parent Families Forced Onto Newstart And Into Poverty Dr Elspeth McInnes AM | 30 January ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist How The New Centrelink Newstart Changes Affect You Jason Bryce | 21 November 2012 Share Thousands of single mums are being fo ...

SingleMum.com.au Articles About Centrelink SingleMum.com.au Articles About Child Support Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Complaints about Centrelink and Chil ...

SingleMum.com.au Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Single Parents Guide To The 2012 Federal Budget Robbing the poor to feed the middle-class? SingleMum.com.au ...

SingleMum.com.au Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Child support, income tests and Centrelink cause stress for single mums SingleMum.com.au Exclusive! Jason Br ...

Single Parents Action Group Rallies Protest Newstart Changes Single Parent Rally Report | Barbara Bryan | 10 February 2012 Share Cassandra Goldie, ACOSS CEO, fights for single parents welfare at the S ...

Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist Good news for single mums on the dole Jason Bryce | 02 February 2012 Share What good news could there possibly be for familie ...

SingleMum.com.au Expert Opinion Panel Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist SingleMum.com.au Exclusive! Single Mum need-to-know info! Jason Bryce – Business & Finance Specialist, for ...