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Social Security Act 2018

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

283: Effect of cancellation of young parent payment on accommodation supplement or temporary additional support

You could also call this:

“What happens to your housing help when your young parent money stops”

If you get a young parent payment and it gets cancelled, it can affect your accommodation supplement or temporary additional support. Here’s what you need to know:

If you’re a single parent, don’t worry. The cancellation won’t change your accommodation supplement or temporary additional support.

If you have a partner and only your payment is cancelled, things change a bit. Your accommodation supplement or temporary additional support will be cut in half. The half that you don’t get will go to your partner instead. Your partner’s supplement or support will also be reduced by half.

If both you and your partner have your young parent payments cancelled, you’ll each only get half of the accommodation supplement or temporary additional support you would normally receive.

Remember, these rules only apply when your young parent payment is cancelled for specific reasons mentioned in section 281(2) of the law.

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Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations: Sanctions: young parent obligations

283Effect of cancellation of young parent payment on accommodation supplement or temporary additional support

  1. The cancellation under section 281(2) of the young parent payment payable to a young person (P) affects an entitlement to an accommodation supplement or temporary additional support as provided in subsections (3) to (5).

  2. If P is a sole parent, cancellation has no effect on P’s entitlement to receive any accommodation supplement or temporary additional support.

  3. If P is not single, and P’s spouse’s or partner’s young parent payment is not also cancelled under section 281(2),—

  4. any accommodation supplement or temporary additional support otherwise payable to P must be reduced by half and be paid to P’s spouse or partner; and
    1. any accommodation supplement or temporary additional support otherwise payable to P’s spouse or partner must be reduced by half.

      1. If P is not single, and the young parent payment of P’s spouse or partner is also cancelled under section 281(2), P and P’s spouse or partner are each entitled to receive only half of any accommodation supplement or temporary additional support that would otherwise be payable to P or P’s spouse or partner.

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