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    The Government's expanding the its FamilyBoost scheme, with changes taking effect retrospectively from the start of this month

    The Government's expanding the its FamilyBoost scheme, with changes taking effect retrospectively from the start of this month


    Eligible families' will now receive 40-percent rebates off their early childhood education fees, up from the previous 25-percent.

    Families with household incomes up to 229-thousand dollars are now eligible to apply, up from the previous 180-thousand dollars.

    Finance Minister Nicola Willis says families can now receive an additional 15-dollars a week.

    She says this is an increase of 13-hundred-dollars to more than two-thousand dollars a year, which will make them much better off.

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