Managing compliance with compulsory requirements 001-18030200
Policy
Legislation
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Targeted Compliance Framework
Mutual obligation failure
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
- section 42AC, Person commits a mutual obligation failure
- section 42AF(1), Participation Payment not payable
- section 42AL, Suspension period
- section 42AM, Reconnection requirements
- section 42AM(3) and (4), Failure to comply with reconnection requirement - payment cancelled
- section 42AI, Reasonable excuse
- section 42AJ, Prior contact
- section 42AF(2), Persistent mutual obligation failure - payment reduced or cancelled
- section 42AN, Reduction period and payment reduction amount
- section 42AP(2), Cancellation date of effect
- section 42AP(5), Post cancellation non-payment period
Social Security (Administration) (Non-Compliance) Determination 2018 (No. 1)
Social Security (Administration) (Reasonable Excuse - Participation Payments) Determination 2018
Work refusal failure
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
- section 42AD, Person commits a work refusal failure
- section 42AG(2), Reasonable excuse
- section 42AG(1), Participation Payment not payable
- section 42AL, Suspension period
- section 42AM, Reconnection requirements
- section 42AM(3) and (4), Failure to comply with reconnection requirement - payment cancelled
- section 42AG(2), Determination to cancel payment as a result of work refusal failure
- section 42AP(2), Cancellation date of effect
- section 42AP(5), Post cancellation non-payment period
Unemployment failure
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
- section 42AE, Person commits an unemployment failure
- section 42AE(3), Reasonable excuse
- section 42AH(1), Determination to cancel payment
- section 42AP(2), Cancellation date of effect
- section 42AP(5), Post cancellation non-payment period
- section 42AH(2) and 42AO, Unemployment preclusion periods at new claim (Start Date)
Job Seeker Compliance Framework
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
- section 42C, No Show, No Pay failures
- section 42E, Connection failures
- section 42SC, Non-attendance failures
- section 42G, Reconnection requirements
- section 42J, Further reconnection requirements
- section 42H, Reconnection failures
- section 42M, Serious failure for persistent non-compliance
- section 42N, Serious failure for refusing or failing to accept an offer of suitable employment
- section 42SA, Immediate non-payment of participation payment for certain failures
- section 42SB, Suspension of payments for certain failures
- section 42U, Reasonable excuse
- section 42UA, Prior notification of excuse
Serious failure start dates and durations of serious failure periods
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999, section 42P, Consequences of serious failure
Waiver re-engagement appointments
Serious hardship provisions
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
- section 42Q, Ending serious failure periods
- section 42S, Unemployment resulting from a voluntary act or misconduct
Unemployment Non-Payment Period hardship provisions
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999, section 42S(4), Ending unemployment non-payment periods
Participation suspension and restoration of payment following a suspension failure
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999
- section 80, Cancellation or suspension determination
- section 85, Resumption of payment after cancellation or suspension
Declared program participant
Social Security Act 1991, section 28C, Declared program participants