Child getting Child Disability Allowance

Children who get a Child Disability Allowance are eligible for the OSCAR Subsidy.

OSCAR may be paid for up to 20 hours a week in term time or 50 hours a week in the school holidays if:

• the qualifications are met (but not the additional qualifications) and
• the child is one for whom Child Disability Allowance is paid

The other parent or partner is not required to provide childcare in these cases.

The subsidy will stop when:

• the child can no longer get Child Disability Allowance or
• the child turns 18 and is not continuing in education or is no longer financially dependent or
• the child is 18 and:
  • they are no longer enrolled in school or tertiary education or
  • they are no longer attending school or tertiary education as required or
  • they are financially independent or
  • they leave the parent or caregiver's care or
  • it is later than 31 December of the year they turned 18 or
• the qualifications are no longer met

whichever is earliest.