Built from real experience navigating CCS as a parent.
CCS Checkup was created after years of using the Child Care Subsidy system and seeing how easily ordinary family changes can make earlier estimates feel out of date.
Through conversations with other parents and childcare-centre managers, the same questions kept coming up: what happens when income changes, how do work hours affect the picture, why did childcare costs move, and what might tax-time balancing look like?
A practical decision-support tool, not a government service.
CCS Checkup does not access Centrelink records, does not update government information and does not determine official CCS outcomes. It helps families estimate and understand when the details they entered may be worth reviewing.
The problem
CCS is important, but family life rarely stays still.
Income estimates move
A figure that looked reasonable earlier in the year may no longer reflect the family’s expected income.
Family life changes
Work hours, care days, childcare fees, school transitions and family circumstances do not stay static.
Tax-time uncertainty builds
Parents often want a clearer way to understand whether the CCS details they entered still appear to fit real life.
Quick CCS Calculator
FreeA one-off estimate of childcare fees, estimated net CCS and out-of-pocket costs based on the details entered.
Try the free calculatorTrack My CCS
Save a family profile, model several real-life changes together, compare before and after, and re-run the checkup when circumstances change again.
Explore Track My CCSImportant to know
CCS Checkup provides estimate-only decision support for general information. It does not provide financial, tax, legal, accounting, Centrelink, Services Australia or government advice. Actual CCS entitlements, subsidised hours, payments, debts and balancing outcomes are determined by Services Australia/Centrelink based on each family’s individual circumstances.
CCS Checkup is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by Services Australia or the Australian Government.