3.2.3.50 Supplementary Benefits & Employment Assistance for YA Recipients

Other Departmental benefits

YA recipients MAY also qualify for the following assistance if they meet the relevant qualification criteria:

• rent assistance (1.2.7.10),
• student start-up scholarship (1.2.7.160),
• relocation scholarship (1.2.7.150),
• pharmaceutical allowance (1.2.7.20),
• remote area allowance (1.2.7.80),
• crisis payment (1.2.6.30),
• fares allowance (1.2.7.90),
• health care card (1.2.8.10),
• mobility allowance (1.2.5.40),
• CDEP participant supplement (CPS) (1.2.7.100),
• bereavement payment (1.2.3.90),
• youth disability supplement (1.2.7.140),
• pensioner education supplement (1.2.7.30),
• pensioner concession card (1.2.8.20), and/or
• telephone allowance (1.2.7.70).

YA (other) is a YA recipient who is other than a YA full-time student or YA Australian apprentice (1.1.A.324).

Policy reference: SS Guide 3.8.1 RA - Qualification & Payability, 3.8.2 PhA - Qualification & Payability, 3.8.8 RAA - Qualification & Payability, 3.8.9 FAA - Eligibility & Payability, 3.9.1 HCC - Qualification Provisions, 3.6.6 MOB - Qualification & Payability, 3.8.10 CDEP CPS - Qualification & Payability, 3.1.5 Bereavement Payment Provisions, 3.8.3 PES - Qualification & Payability, 3.9.2 PCC - Qualification Provisions, 3.8.6.10 Qualification for EdEP - NSA, PA, WP, WA & PPP, 3.8.15 Relocation Scholarship - Qualification & Payability, 3.8.16 Student Start-up Scholarship - Qualification & Payability

Employment incentives

YA recipients may receive the following incentives to take up a job:

• access to working credits,
• payment of certain supplementary benefits during the employment income nil rate period,
• continued use of their HCC or PCC for a certain period, and
• able to have their payment resumed during the employment income nil rate period if they report a fall in income sufficient for YA to be payable again.

Policy reference: SS Guide 3.1.11 Working Credit, 3.1.12 Employment Income Nil Rate Period, 3.9.1.10 Qualification for HCC - Automatic Issue, 3.9.2.10 Qualification for PCC

Transfer to NSA

YA recipients who are not full time students or Australian apprentices transfer to NSA on their 21st birthday. A NSA claim form is required. They are no longer subject to the parental means test (1.1.P.50), and de facto relationships of less than 12 months duration are recognised. Such relationships would mean the partner income test (1.1.P.40) would apply, unless the partner is a dependent YA recipient (1.1.D.100).

YA students aged 21 years and over lose qualification for YA when they cease full-time study (1.1.F.230), or drop below a full-time load. If their circumstances have not otherwise changed, they can claim NSA.

Inappropriate claims

The following table describes YA recipients in special circumstances, who may be better off seeking a different payment:

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Last reviewed: 1 July 2010