Use the calendar as a repeat-pattern worksheet
Reviewed 30 September 2026. This tool projects only an unchanged fortnightly Family Tax Benefit amount. It begins on the date you enter and adds 14 calendar days for each later row. The total is the entered amount multiplied by the number of rows. It is not an official schedule, a claim decision or an annual entitlement estimate.
For example, an entered $400 and 4 projected payments produce a scenario total of $1,600. A changed rate, supplement, debt deduction or different deposit pattern is not included. Keep projected amounts separate from money already received when planning bills.
Check the first date and amount against your account
Use your own Centrelink account through myGov. Verify that the date and amount relate to the particular FTB payment you intend to model. A past bank deposit could contain an adjustment or one-off amount and may not be a safe recurring anchor.
Record the date you checked and return to the account before relying on a later projected row. If you receive FTB as a lump sum or have not received an assessment, this fortnightly model does not fit. See Family Tax Benefit payment and claim guidance.
Public holidays do not follow one universal advance rule
Services Australia publishes changes before national public holidays. Reporting and payment dates may move, and some payments may be early. If income is reported on a national public holiday, payment may occur after it. Do not automatically move every weekend or holiday date to the previous business day. Read the current holiday reporting and payment notice and your account.
Why Parental Leave Pay is not scheduled here
PLP entitlement days are not the same as deposit dates. When an employer provides the payment, the normal payroll cycle applies; Services Australia can also be the payer in applicable cases. Birth date alone cannot establish the first deposit. This tool therefore does not invent PLP dates or divide the maximum entitlement into fortnightly deposits. Check your approved days and the paying organisation’s schedule. Source: employer payment-cycle guidance.
Newborn payments and other adjustments
Newborn Supplement can be payable over up to 13 weeks subject to FTB Part A entitlement and other rules. That duration cannot be divided into identical deposits anchored to someone else’s FTB cycle without knowing the assessment. The newborn payments also cannot be combined with PLP for the same child. Check the official newborn-payment guidance and the amounts and dates in your account.
Debt recovery is not modelled as a fixed percentage. Read the deduction or repayment arrangement that applies to you. Reporting duties are also payment- and circumstance-specific; follow your own account tasks rather than assuming every family payment has the same reporting cycle.
If a payment does not arrive when expected
- Compare the account’s actual payment status and amount with the bank record, rather than only this projection.
- Check for outstanding tasks, reporting, changed circumstances or a current holiday notice.
- Contact the relevant service using its official contact route if the discrepancy remains. Keep dates, references and the account message.
- Revise the cash-flow plan once the confirmed information changes. Do not assume a replacement date or back payment.
Change note: Removed unsupported automatic PLP/newborn deposit generation, universal early-holiday claims and fixed debt-deduction assumptions. Added strict date/amount validation, explicit scope and stale-result clearing. The shared 2026-27 rate library remains available to the site; this recurrence model uses the amount you enter.