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Social Security Act 2018

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

287: Procedure for imposing sanctions for failure to comply with young person or young parent obligation

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When you don’t follow the rules for young people or young parents who get benefits, there’s a process to decide what happens next. This process is similar to how other benefit rules are enforced. The government counts how many times you haven’t followed the rules. They also have steps they follow to decide if you should lose some of your benefit. These steps are the same as those used for other types of benefits. The rules about counting failures and deciding on consequences apply to young people and young parents just like they do to other people who get benefits.

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

287Procedure for imposing sanctions for failure to comply with young person or young parent obligation

  1. Sections 240 to 242 (how number of failures is counted) and sections 252 to 256 (procedure for imposing sanctions) apply with all necessary modifications to the imposition of sanctions under sections 270, 271, 280, and 281.

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