Permanent resident VS 457

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Hi Sammy,

 

I'm not too familiar with the childcare system, what kind of help might we be eligible for under PR? I had assumed we wouldn't qualify for any help (as in the UK). Our incomes will be 100k and somewhere above 120k.

 

We have been looking at the possibility of using a combination of Au-pair / nanny / childminder for 3days a week and day care for a 2.

 

I have been doing a budget for living costs, and after rent, childcare will be our biggest cost, and were definitely keen to reduce it!

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Hi Sammy,

 

I'm not too familiar with the childcare system, what kind of help might we be eligible for under PR? I had assumed we wouldn't qualify for any help (as in the UK). Our incomes will be 100k and somewhere above 120k.

 

We have been looking at the possibility of using a combination of Au-pair / nanny / childminder for 3days a week and day care for a 2.

 

I have been doing a budget for living costs, and after rent, childcare will be our biggest cost, and were definitely keen to reduce it!

 

Help with childcare costs is not means tested - to my cost I didn't realise this and never claimed it whilst in Australia! I believe it could be as much as a 50% rebate - although an aupair wouldn't qualify (I don't think) and there isn't childminders in Australia (although what they call 'Family Day Care' is about the same thing but seems much more formalised).

 

If you have a look at the links someone else provided above you will be able to work out the rebate for your circumstances.

 

I would urge you to consider again a PR visa if you have the option - you could seriously live to regret it.

 

I am going to give you a VERY worst case scenario......let's imagine whilst you are on the 457 visa someone in your family gets seriously ill, now they would be treated without problem even under Medicare (if it was urgent) but whilst they are under treatment your 457 visa expires, the employer is perfectly happy to offer sponsorship for PR but now the family member who is ill fails the medical....the PR visa is declined and you have to return home with a family member who is undergoing treatment for a serious condition. Sound far fetched? Not really, there was a case whilst I was in Australia of a Dr. on a 457 whose wife had breast cancer and their PR visa was declined (they appealed there was a public outcry and it was granted but who needs that) and in my own case my son & I arrived in Australia on a 457 visa apparently healthy, our PR was granted 9 months later and 6 months after that my son was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, which I also have (but up to that point undiagnosed) and less than a year after that, completely unrelated I was diagnosed with RA. Had we not got our PR so quickly there is every chance our visa would have been declined.