Part 4Factors affecting benefits
Factors affecting benefits: Factors affecting benefits: jobseeker profiles
183CIf person’s spouse or partner does not have jobseeker profile completed
This section applies if—
- a person specified in section 183A(1) (P) has a spouse or partner who is required to have a jobseeker profile completed to MSD’s satisfaction under section 183A(3); and
- P’s spouse or partner fails to have the jobseeker profile completed to MSD’s satisfaction within the period allowed under section 183D(1).
If this section applies under subsection (1), it applies until—
- P’s spouse or partner has the jobseeker profile completed to MSD’s satisfaction; or
- MSD revokes the requirement under section 183A(3) for P’s spouse or partner to have the jobseeker profile completed to MSD’s satisfaction.
P receives the following forms of assistance (if all or any of them is granted) at the following rate or rates only:
- any benefit referred to in section 183A(1) that P is granted, at half of the rate of that benefit payable to a beneficiary—
- who is in a relationship; and
- whose spouse or partner is not granted a benefit in the spouse’s or partner’s own right; and
- who is in a relationship; and
- the accommodation supplement, temporary additional support, or both (if any), to which P and P’s spouse or partner would apart from this subsection be entitled, at half of the otherwise applicable rate or rates.
Notes
- Section 183C: inserted, on , by section 11 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).