Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations - Sanctions: young person obligations

276: Sanctions for failure by young person required to receive youth services to comply with obligations: other cases

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"What happens if you don't follow the rules when you're getting youth services"

If you are a young person who has to get youth services, you have to do what you are told. You might have to get these services because of section 165(2) or section 168(2). Your benefit is not managed in a special way under section 344.

If you do not do what you are told without a good reason, MSD will take action. You might not do what is required under section 165(7)(a) or section 168(6)(a). This can include things like what is said in section 166(2)(b) and (d) to (g), or a work test, or a work-preparation obligation under section 124 or section 125.

MSD must treat your failure to do what you are told as a failure to comply with the work test or a work-preparation obligation. This is for the purposes of sections 233 and sections 236 to 239.

If you are subject to a sanction under sections 233 and sections 236 to 239, MSD will suspend or cancel your incentive payments. This happens if you do not do what you are told and your benefit is reduced or suspended, or if your benefit is cancelled.

Section 232(3) stops MSD from imposing a non-financial sanction on you if you have failed to comply with the work test or a work-preparation obligation.

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Part 5Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations: Sanctions: young person obligations

276Sanctions for failure by young person required to receive youth services to comply with obligations: other cases

  1. This section applies to a young person—

  2. who has been required to receive youth services under section 165(2) or 168(2); and
    1. whose benefit is not subject to youth money management under section 344; and
      1. who MSD is satisfied has, without good and sufficient reason, failed to comply with an obligation that applies to the young person under section 165(7)(a) or 168(6)(a), and that is—
        1. an obligation in section 166(2)(b) and (d) to (g); or
          1. the work test (in the case of a work-tested beneficiary); or
            1. a work-preparation obligation under section 124 or 125 (in the case of a beneficiary who is required to comply with section 124).
            2. MSD must treat the young person’s failure referred to in subsection (1)(c)(i), (ii), or (iii),—

            3. in the case of a young person who is subject to the work test, as a failure to comply with the work test for the purposes of sections 233 and 236 to 239; and
              1. in the case of a young person who is required to comply with section 124, as a failure to comply with a work-preparation obligation under section 124 or 125 for the purposes of sections 233 and 236 to 239.
                1. MSD must, in the case of a young person who is subject to a sanction under sections 233 and 236 to 239 for a failure that subsection (2)(a) or (b) of this section requires to be treated as having occurred:

                2. suspend the young person’s incentive payments (if any) (if that sanction is a reduction in the rate of or suspension of the young person’s benefit) until the young person recomplies; or
                  1. cancel the young person’s incentive payments (if any) (if that sanction is the cancellation of the young person’s benefit).
                    1. Section 232(3) prevents MSD from imposing under section 232 a non-financial sanction on a young person to whom subsection (2)(a) or (b) of this section applies.

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                    Notes
                    • Section 276(1)(b): amended, on , by section 61 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).
                    • Section 276(3)(a): amended, on , by section 37(1) of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).
                    • Section 276(4): inserted, on , by section 37(2) of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).