How we notify the public
We notify the public of our intention to collect 2025–26 to 2027–28 Parental Leave Pay data by:
- publishing a notice in the Federal Register of LegislationExternal Link gazette in the week starting 8 June 2026.
- publishing this data-matching program protocol on our website at Data-matching protocols.
- advising Services Australia that they
- can notify their customers of their participation in this program
- should update their privacy policies to note that personal information is disclosed to the ATO for data-matching purposes.
- Services Australia's Parental Leave Pay privacy notice for customers - About us - Services AustraliaExternal Link on the Services Australia website includes that personal information is disclosed to us for data-matching purposes.
Gazette notice
The following information about the data-matching program between Services Australia and the ATO appears as a gazette notice in the Federal Register of Legislation.
Gazette notice: Commissioner of Taxation - Notice of a paid parental leave superannuation contribution data-matching program 8 June 2026.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will acquire personal identifying data from Services Australia for 2025–26 through to 2027–28.
The data items include:
- identification details (tax file number (TFN), Centrelink reference number (CRN), given name/s and surname, maiden surname, other names, date of birth, residential address)
- transaction details (Parental Leave Pay gross amount, first payment date, financial year).
For this data-matching program, we will match data provided by Services Australia against ATO records.
The data collected under this program will be used by the ATO to:
- calculate the Paid Parental Leave Super Contribution (PPLSC)
- make the payments on an annual basis, including an interest component, from July 2026, and
- recalculate PPLSC payments based on updated data.
This program complements other gender equality measures and the government’s objectives to increase support for women’s economic participation, reducing the retirement savings gap for some women. Additional objectives of the measure include:
• boosting retirement savings for parents
• improving the economic security of families
• normalising parental leave as a workplace entitlement
• modernising and strengthening the Paid Parental Leave Scheme and
• improving the fairness of Australia’s retirement income system.
A document describing this program is available at ato.gov.au/dmprotocols
This program follows the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) (2014) Guidelines on data matching in Australian Government administration (the guidelines). The guidelines include standards for the use of data matching as an administrative tool in a way that:
- complies with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) and the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act)
- is consistent with good privacy practice.
A full copy of the ATO’s privacy policy can be accessed at ato.gov.au/privacy