[NP] Paid parental leave work test exemptions

Has anyone had any success in receiving an exemption either on review or organised when applying for the paid parental leave work test?

My wife was made redundant yesterday with no warning or redundancy package (Small tech recruitment company), and is currently 6 months pregnant. While we can manage, and have saving amd a supportive family, this could not come a t a worse time in the pregnancy.

The work test to be eligible for the paid parental leave scheme requires you to work 10 out of the 13 months prior to the birth of your child. The timing of the redundancy means if our baby is born on the due date, we will miss this mark by just under 3 weeks.

My wife is currently looking for some temp work in any fields she has experience in, however is limited due to some pregnancy complications to very light, seated work. Essentially it has to be in an office or from home.

It's causing us a lot of stress so we are trying to get information from Centrelink to know if they make exemptions, however so far all we have been told no she would miss out and we could attempt to have the decision reviewed afterwards.

Would like to know if anyone has had success reviewing these sorts of cases, or has any advice for how to go about it. I'd ideally not like to deal with a case review right when having a new kid.