Part 5Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations: Sanctions: young person obligations
270ACancellation of youth payment and incentive payments for continuing failure to comply
MSD must cancel a young person’s (P’s) youth payment and incentive payments if—
- MSD has, under section 270, imposed a sanction described in section 270(2) on P; and
- P fails to recomply, within 13 weeks after the sanction takes effect, with each obligation—
- for which the sanction was imposed for a failure to comply with; and
- that P has not ceased to have; and
- for which the sanction was imposed for a failure to comply with; and
- section 320 does not apply to P.
On cancellation under this section of P’s youth payment,—
- MSD must also cancel the following benefits if P is receiving them:
- accommodation supplement:
- temporary additional support:
- disability allowance (but not child disability allowance); but
- accommodation supplement:
- that cancellation of those benefits does not, if P reapplies for all or any of them, affect or limit P’s entitlement to all or any of them.
On cancellation under this section of P’s youth payment, to be again entitled to youth payment under this Act, P must apply for youth payment and establish that P is eligible for youth payment.
If P is again entitled to youth payment under this Act, to be entitled again to incentive payments, P must satisfy the criteria for incentive payments (as those criteria are prescribed for the purposes of section 55 by regulations made under section 418(1)(c)).
Notes
- Section 270A: inserted, on , by section 35 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).