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Social Security Act 2018

Administration - Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant - Restoration of entitlement after suspension, reduction, non-financial sanction, cancellation, or non-entitlement

321: Effect of no longer being subject to dependent children obligations

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"What happens when you don't have to care for dependent children anymore and a sanction is lifted."

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If you have a sanction because of something you had to do for your dependent children, this rule applies to you. The sanction was given to you under sections like section 236, 236A, 236B, 237, or 238, and because of an obligation you had under sections 131 to 135. When you no longer have to meet that obligation, the sanction stops applying to you. The sanction stops when you do not have the obligation anymore. You do not have to do anything for the sanction to stop, it just ceases to apply to you when the obligation ends.

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Commencement, stand downs, ending, and expiry and regrant: Restoration of entitlement after suspension, reduction, non-financial sanction, cancellation, or non-entitlement

321Effect of no longer being subject to dependent children obligations

  1. This section applies to a sanction imposed on a person—

  2. under section 236, 236A, 236B, 237, or 238 (as applied by section 136); and
    1. in respect of an obligation that the person had under any of sections 131 to 135.

      1. The sanction ceases to apply to the person on the person ceasing to have that obligation.

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      • Section 321(1)(a): amended, on , by section 47(1) of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).