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Social Security Act 2018

Factors affecting benefits - Factors affecting benefits - Factors affecting benefits: non-entitlement period, stand down, or 100% suspension of benefit

230: How non-entitlement period, etc, affects supplementary benefits, and spouse or partner

You could also call this:

“How waiting periods or stopping benefits affects extra help and your partner's benefits”

When you can’t get a benefit for a while, or you have to wait before getting one, or your benefit is completely stopped as a punishment, some things happen:

You can’t get any extra help like emergency benefits, money for housing costs, or temporary extra support.

But if you were already getting help with housing costs when you applied for a benefit, you can keep getting that help at the same amount during the time you can’t get the main benefit.

If your husband, wife, or partner has to wait before they can get a benefit, you also have to wait before you can get a benefit.

This rule applies to you even if other parts of the law say something different.

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Part 4 Factors affecting benefits
Factors affecting benefits: Factors affecting benefits: non-entitlement period, stand down, or 100% suspension of benefit

230How non-entitlement period, etc, affects supplementary benefits, and spouse or partner

  1. This section applies while a person is subject to—

  2. a non-entitlement period; or
    1. a stand down under section 316 (start and calculation of stand-down period); or
      1. a sanction of suspension of 100% of a benefit under section 237, 270, or 280.

        1. The person is not entitled to receive—

        2. an emergency benefit; or
          1. an accommodation supplement; or
            1. temporary additional support.

              1. However, an accommodation supplement that an applicant was receiving immediately before the applicant applied for a benefit continues, despite subsections (1)(b) and (2)(b), at the same rate for the period of non-entitlement.

              2. If a person’s spouse or partner is under section 316 (start and calculation of stand-down period) not entitled to a benefit, then (under this subsection, and despite any contrary provision of this Act) the person is also not entitled to the benefit.

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