Mutual obligations, failures and exemptions from the activity test for Farm Household Allowance (FHA) customers 002-02070000

Policy

Links to the Farm Household Allowance Guidelines go to pdf and docx documents. Select the document and go to the reference(s) below.

Farm Household Allowance Guidelines

• 4. Entering into a Financial Improvement Agreement
• 23. Financial Improvement Agreements
• 25. Exemptions from activity test
• 26. Notifications of circumstances preventing or affecting compliance
• 27. Qualification Failures
• 28. Conduct Failures
• 29. Reasonable excuses
• 31. Review and appeals

Social Security Guide, 3.11.1.20, Unsuitable work

Social Security Guide, 3.11.5.20, Special Circumstances

Legislation

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Farm Household Support Act 2014

• section 14, Requirement to enter into a financial improvement agreement
• section 18, Notification of circumstances preventing or affecting compliance
• section 19, The activity test
• section 21, Determining whether work is unsuitable
• Part 2, Division 5 - Exemptions from the activity test
• section 71, Qualification failures
• section 73, Conduct failures
• section 75, Revoking a determination in relation to a conduct failure
• section 76, Reasonable excuses

Farm Household Support Secretary's Rules 2024

• section 9, Reasonable excuses for committing a qualification or conduct failure

Farm Household Support Amendment (Relief Measures) Act (No.2)