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Social Security Act 2018

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

331: Expiry date, and specified benefit, defined

You could also call this:

“Explaining when certain types of government help end and what types of help are included”

In this part of the law, you’ll learn about two important terms: ‘expiry date’ and ‘specified benefit’.

The expiry date is a set day when a specified benefit ends. This date is decided by special rules.

A specified benefit is a type of help you can get from the government. It includes jobseeker support, which is always a specified benefit. It can also include sole parent support, supported living payment, or emergency benefit. But sometimes, these three might not be specified benefits if the rules say so.

The rules can say that sole parent support, supported living payment, or emergency benefit are not specified benefits. They can do this for only certain types of these benefits or for only certain groups of people who get these benefits.

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

331Expiry date, and specified benefit, defined

  1. In this section and sections 332 to 336,—

    expiry date, in relation to a specified benefit, means the expiry date prescribed for that specified benefit by regulations made under section 441(1)

      specified benefit means a benefit that is—

      1. jobseeker support; or
        1. sole parent support, supported living payment, or emergency benefit, unless that benefit is for the time being declared not to be a specified benefit for the purposes of this section and sections 332 to 336 by regulations made under section 441(1).

        2. Regulations made under section 441(1) that declare sole parent support, supported living payment, or emergency benefit not to be a specified benefit may, without limitation, declare not to be a specified benefit for the purposes of this section and sections 332 to 336 any of those benefits—

        3. as granted on only 1 or more specified available eligibility grounds:
          1. as granted to only 1 or more specified categories, classes, or kinds of beneficiaries.

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