Chapter 17. Newstart Allowance & Youth Allowance (unemployed)
1.2 Overview of payments for people seeking work
2.1 General qualification criteria for Newstart Allowance
2.2 General qualification criteria for Youth Allowance (unemployed)
3. Qualification –"principal carer" parents and people with a "partial capacity to work"
3.1 Additional qualification criteria for “principal carer” parents
3.2 Additional qualification criteria for people with a "partial capacity to work"
3.3 Supplementary payments and concession cards
4.1 What does “unemployed” mean?
4.3 Some examples of being “unemployed”
4.4 People not treated as “unemployed”
4.5 Unemployment due to “industrial action”
4.6 Can self-employed people be “unemployed”?
4.7 “Voluntary work” and being “unemployed”
4.8 Students and being “unemployed”
5. Overview of the activity test
5.1 An overview of the activity test
5.2 Centrelink must “notify” a person
5.3 Comply or have a “reasonable excuse”
6 General requirement to seek and undertake “suitable work”
6.1 What “actively seeking” means
6.2 What “willing to undertake work” means
6.3 What is “suitable work” - general rules
6.4 Unreasonably difficult commuting - general rules
7. What is “suitable work” - special rules for "principal carer" parents
7.1 Hours per week requirements
7.2 Availability of child care
7.3 Length of travel time – 60 minutes
7.5 “Financial suitability of the job test”
7.6 Suitable work that becomes unsuitable
8. What is “suitable work” - special rules for people with a "partial capacity to work”
8.1 Hours per week requirements
9. Specific job search requirements
9.1 Job search requirements - general
9.2 Job search requirements for “principal carer” parents
9.3 Job search requirements for people with a “partial capacity”
10.1 The requirement to enter into or sign
10.2 What an Activity Agreement may contain
10.3 Students and Activity Agreements
10.4 Reviews of an “Activity Agreement”
10.5 Variations to an “Activity Agreement”
11. “Mutual obligation” requirements and other activities
11.1 Fulfilling “mutual obligation” requirements
11.2 Undertaking “Community Work” and “voluntary work”
11.3 Participation in a “Work for the Dole” scheme
11.4 Undertaking “full-time” study
11.5 Undertaking “part-time” study
11.6 Undertaking an English for adult migrants program
11.7 Personal Support Programme
11.9 People who are 55 or over
12. Exemptions from the activity test
12.2 “Temporary Incapacity” exemption
12.3 “Special circumstances” exemption
12.4 Exemptions for certain people in remote areas
12.5 Exemptions for "principal carer" parents
12.6 Exemptions for people with a "partial capacity to work"
13. When is Newstart or Youth Allowance not “payable”?
13.3 Newstart and Youth Allowance not “payable”
13.4 Students and Newstart Allowance
14. Forms, reviews and reporting requirements
14.1 The “Participation Record”
14.2 Fortnightly forms - the “Application for Payment” form or “Recipient Statement Notice”
14.4 “Reduced reporting” - 12 week lodgment for certain people
14.6 Employer Contact Certificates
14.7 Jobseeker Diary – the “dole diary”: what is it?
14.8 Keeping Centrelink informed
15. Getting a job – leaving unemployment payments
16. Useful links and resources
