FED:Extra payment for health checks

08-11-2010
FED:Extra payment for health checks

Parents would qualify for a 725 dollar family payment if their four-year-olds submit
to a health check .. under a Labor policy to be announced today.

News Limited newspapers say the supplementary payment to families eligible for family
Tax Benefit part A .. would be given to families who give their four-year-olds a free
check-up under a scheme for pre-schoolers introduced in 2008.

Only 15 per cent of families take advantage of the free health checks aimed at heading
off health problems before children start school.

The new policy would begin on July 1 and would affect about 50 thousand children a year.

AAP RTV jrd/af

KEYWORD: POLL10 HEALTH (MELBOURNE)

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