Part 5Enforcement: sanctions and offences
Sanctions for breach of young person or young parent obligations: Sanctions: young parent obligations
280ACancellation of young parent payment and incentive payments for continuing failure to comply
MSD must cancel a young person’s (P’s) young parent payment and incentive payments if—
- MSD has, under section 280, imposed a sanction described in section 280(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 young parent 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 young parent payment, to be again entitled to young parent payment under this Act, P must apply for young parent payment and establish that P is eligible for young parent payment.
If P is again entitled to young parent 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 62 by regulations made under section 418(1)(d)).
Notes
- Section 280A: inserted, on , by section 39 of the Social Security Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 25).