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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Specific obligations: work-test obligations

139: Purpose of sections 140 to 154

You could also call this:

“These sections explain how to keep your benefits by trying to find or keep a job”

Sections 140 to 154 are about making sure you keep trying your best to get a job, keep a job, or go back to work if you’re getting benefits that require you to work. These sections want you to keep doing what you can to support yourself and your family.

The sections also list the things you might need to do to keep getting your benefits. They set up a system that can be changed to fit your own situation.

These rules apply to anyone getting benefits that require them to work. The aim is to help you find work and become independent.

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Part 3 Obligations
Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: work-test obligations

139Purpose of sections 140 to 154

  1. The purpose of sections 140 to 154 is—

  2. to ensure that work-tested beneficiaries maintain an unrelenting focus on entering, retaining, or returning to, employment; and
    1. to reinforce the continuing obligation of work-tested beneficiaries to take reasonable steps to support themselves and their families; and
      1. to identify the activities that work-tested beneficiaries may be required to undertake to meet their obligations arising from work-tested benefits being paid in respect of them; and
        1. to provide a work test structure applying to all work-tested beneficiaries that is sufficiently flexible to take account of an individual beneficiary's circumstances.

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