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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant - Commencement of benefits

313: Benefits subject to stand down

You could also call this:

“Waiting periods for some benefits before they start”

When you apply for certain benefits, you might have to wait before you can start receiving them. This waiting period is called a stand down. The benefits that have a stand down include:

  1. Work-tested benefits
  2. Youth payments and young parent payments (except if you’re doing job training or going to high school)
  3. Sole parent support
  4. Jobseeker support if you have a health condition, injury, or disability
  5. Supported living payments

If your benefit has a stand down, it will start on a date that’s worked out using special rules. But there are some situations where you might not have to wait. The government can also make rules about when stand downs don’t apply.

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Part 6 Administration
Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant: Commencement of benefits

313Benefits subject to stand down

  1. A benefit is subject to a stand down, and commences on a date calculated under section 316, if—

  2. the benefit is a work-tested benefit or a youth payment or a young parent payment (other than a youth payment or a young parent payment granted to a person undertaking employment-related training or who is enrolled in a course of secondary instruction) and the applicant is not subject to a non-entitlement period (as defined in Schedule 2); or
    1. the benefit is sole parent support, jobseeker support on the ground of health condition, injury, or disability, or a supported living payment.

      1. This section is subject to section 315 (exemptions from stand down) and to regulations made under section 443.

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