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Social Security Act 2018

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184: Regulations may prescribe pre-benefit activities

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“The government can make rules about tasks you might need to do before getting money help”

The government can make rules about things you might need to do before you get financial help. These are called pre-benefit activities. If you ask for money help, you or your partner might have to do these activities. The government can also decide what happens if you don’t do these activities without a good reason. These rules are explained in another part of the law called section 432.

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Factors affecting benefits: Factors affecting benefits: pre-benefit activities

184Regulations may prescribe pre-benefit activities

  1. MSD may, in accordance with regulations made under section 432,—

  2. require a person who contacts MSD requesting financial assistance under this Act or that person’s spouse or partner (if any) to undertake 1 or more pre-benefit activities; and
    1. impose consequences for non-compliance, without a good and sufficient reason, with a requirement to undertake the 1 or more pre-benefit activities.

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