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Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Offences

292: Offence of demanding or accepting fee or other consideration in relation to grant of benefit

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“It's against the law to ask for payment when helping with benefit applications”

You are not allowed to ask for or take money or anything else in exchange for helping someone get a benefit. This is against the law. If you do this, you are committing a crime. This rule applies to anyone who tries to help someone get a benefit, not just the person applying for it. It doesn’t matter if you actually succeed in getting the benefit or just try to get it; asking for payment is still not allowed.

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Part 5 Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Offences

292Offence of demanding or accepting fee or other consideration in relation to grant of benefit

  1. A person commits an offence if the person demands or accepts from any applicant for a benefit or from any other person any fee or other consideration for procuring or endeavouring to procure the grant of a benefit.

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