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Social Security Act 2018

Obligations - Beneficiaries’ obligations - Specific obligations: young person granted youth support payment

163: When education obligation or training obligation begins for young parent

You could also call this:

“When young parents have to start learning or training after having a baby”

You need to understand when your education or training obligation starts if you’re a young parent receiving a young parent payment. This applies to you if you’re the main caregiver of your youngest child.

Your obligation to study or train doesn’t start right away. It begins on the earliest of these two days:

  1. The day when your child is at least 6 months old, there’s a spot for you in a teen parent unit (which is a special school for teenage parents), and the government agrees there’s no good reason to delay.

  2. The day your child turns 1 year old.

A teen parent unit is a special part of a regular school that’s set up to help teenage parents continue their education.

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Beneficiaries’ obligations: Specific obligations: young person granted youth support payment

163When education obligation or training obligation begins for young parent

  1. This section applies to a young person—

  2. who receives a young parent payment; and
    1. who is principal caregiver of the young person’s youngest dependent child.

      1. The obligation set out in section 162(1)(a) begins to apply to the young person only on the earlier of the following days:

      2. the first day on which—
        1. the child is at least 6 months old; and
          1. a suitable place is available for the young person in a teen parent unit; and
            1. MSD is satisfied that there are no special circumstances justifying the obligation's beginning to apply later:
            2. the day on which the child becomes 12 months old.

              1. In this section, teen parent unit means an educational facility for teenage parents attached to a State school (within the meaning of the Education and Training Act 2020).

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              • Section 163(3): amended, on , by section 668 of the Education and Training Act 2020 (2020 No 38).