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Social Security Act 2018

Enforcement: sanctions and offences - Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations - Sanctions: young person obligations

277: Sanctions for failure by young spouse or partner of specified beneficiary to comply with obligations: youth money management

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"Penalties for young partners of beneficiaries who don't manage their money as required"

If you are a young person aged 16 or 17 without dependent children, or 16 to 19 with dependent children, and you are the spouse or partner of a specified beneficiary, this section applies to you. Your benefit must be subject to youth money management. You must also have failed to comply with an obligation under section 166(2) or 167(2) and (3) without a good reason. If this happens, the sanctions in sections 270 and 271 will apply to you, as if your benefit were a youth support payment. The sanctions in sections 272 to 274 and 283 to 288 will also apply to you.

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Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations: Sanctions: young person obligations

277Sanctions for failure by young spouse or partner of specified beneficiary to comply with obligations: youth money management

  1. This section applies to a young person—

  2. who is—
    1. aged 16 or 17 years, without dependent children, and is the spouse or partner of a specified beneficiary; or
      1. aged 16 to 19 years, with a dependent child or children, and is the spouse or partner of a specified beneficiary; and
      2. whose benefit is subject to youth money management; and
        1. who MSD is satisfied has, without good and sufficient reason, failed to comply with an obligation that applies to the young person under section 166(2) or 167(2) and (3).

          1. The sanctions in sections 270 and 271 apply (and sections 272 to 274 and 283 to 288 apply) as if the young person’s benefit were a youth support payment.

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          • Section 277 heading: amended, on , by section 61 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).
          • Section 277(1)(b): amended, on , by section 61 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).