Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 40S

Rehabilitation program

  (1)   A person is not required to satisfy the employment pathway plan requirements in respect of a period (the applicable period ) if:

  (a)   subparagraph   593(1)(a)(ii) of the 1991 Act applies in relation to the person; and

  (b)   the person is undertaking a rehabilitation program; and

  (c)   the program is intended to enhance the person's ability to work; and

  (d)   the length of the person's participation in the program is, or is likely to be, at least 6 weeks; and

  (e)   the person's participation in the program will, or is likely to, end within the period of 208 weeks after the jobseeker payment commenced to be payable to the person.

The applicable period is the period the person is undertaking the rehabilitation program or such shorter or longer period determined by the Employment Secretary.

Interaction with the ABSTUDY Scheme

  (2)   A person is not required to satisfy the employment pathway plan requirements in respect of a period (the applicable period ) if:

  (a)   jobseeker payment is payable to the person because of subsection   614(6) of the 1991 Act; and

  (b)   the person has commenced the full - time course of education referred to in paragraph   614(6)(a) of the 1991 Act.

The applicable period is the period during which the payment is payable to the person because of that subsection.