Assessment of hardship for Income Maintenance Period (IMP) 106-05020030
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Types of assessable income from employment
Social Security Guide 4.3.3 Income from employment
Social Security Guide 4.3.3.10 General provisions for income from employment
Social Security Guide 4.3.3.40 Employment income for allowees
Information on the IMP, applying it to payments and the hardship provisions
Social Security Guide 4.3.4 Income maintenance period
Social Security Guide 4.3.4.10 Application of the income maintenance period (IMP)
Social Security Guide 4.3.4.40 Hardship provisions for the IMP
Prior to 1 July 1999, in determining whether an Income Maintenance Period (IMP) did not apply, in whole or in part, the Service Officer must have been satisfied that:
- an IMP would cause severe financial hardship, and
- the circumstances that would cause the hardship were not reasonably foreseeable by the customer
Definitions
Social Security Guide 1.1.S.125 Severe financial hardship - OWP, SWPP, LAWP, IMP
Social Security Guide 1.1.U.20 Unavoidable or reasonable expenditure (JSP, YA, PP, Austudy)
Legislation
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- section 1068-G7AG, Certain leave payments taken to be ordinary income-employment continuing
- section 19C(1), Severe financial hardship (ordinary waiting period & liquid assets test waiting period) definitions
- section 19C(4), Unavoidable or reasonable expenditure