If you receive a specific type of benefit that is meant to end during the week of Christmas (26 December) or the week before, there's a special rule. Instead of stopping your benefit at that time, it will continue to be paid until the first Monday after 2 January of the next year. This rule is more important than some other rules about when benefits usually end. It's designed to make sure you have support during the holiday period.

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332: General rule, or

"What happens to your benefit when it reaches its expiry date"

334: Exceptions for specified benefit based on prescribed circumstances, or

"Some people on a benefit don't have to stop getting it at the usual time due to special circumstances."

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

333Exception for specified benefit expiring in week of or before 26 December

This section applies to a specified benefit that expires under section 332 in the week that is, or is the week immediately before, the week that includes 26 December in a year.
The benefit must continue to be paid until the first Monday after 2 January in the immediately following year.
This section overrides sections 325 and 332.

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1964 No 136 s 80BE(7)