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Social Security Act 2018

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

289: MSD may cancel incentive payment

You could also call this:

“MSD can stop your reward payment if you break the rules”

MSD can stop giving you an incentive payment if they think you have done something on purpose that goes against why they gave it to you. If this happens, you can’t get the payment again until MSD decides you can have it back.

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

289MSD may cancel incentive payment

  1. MSD may cancel an incentive payment if satisfied that the young person concerned has intentionally acted in a way that is inconsistent with the purpose for which it was granted.

  2. On cancellation, the young person is not eligible to receive the incentive payment again until MSD decides that it may be regranted.

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