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A person with a physical, intellectual or psychiatric impairment has a partial capacity to work if the impairment prevents them from working at least 30 hours per week at the relevant minimum wage or above, independently of a programme of support, within the next 2 years. In determining whether a person has a partial capacity to work, the Secretary must be satisfied that no training activity is likely, because of the impairment, to enable the person to work at least 30 hours per week at the relevant minimum wage or above, independently of a programme of support, within the next
Act reference: SS Act section 16B Partial capacity to work, section 540AB Qualification for Youth Allowance - claimants with medical conditions affecting their capacity to work, section 593(1D) Qualification for Newstart Allowance, section 23(1) General definitions
Policy reference: SS Guide 1.1.R.133 Relevant minimum wage (DSP, MOB, Partial capacity to work & CA), 1.1.I.95 Independently of a programme of support, 1.1.T.137 Training activity, 1.2.1.10 Newstart Allowance - Description, 1.2.1.20 Youth Allowance (YA) - Description, 3.2.1 NSA - Qualification & Payability, 3.2.3 YA - Qualification & Payability, 3.2.7 NSA/YA Activity Testing, 3.2.9 NSA/YA Satisfying the Activity Test - Approved Activities
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Last reviewed: 2 July 2007
