1.2 Overview – qualification requirements
1.3 Overview – residential qualification requirements – visa types
1.4 Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period exemptions
1.5 Overview – activity testing requirements
1.6 Situations in which Special Benefit is paid
1.8 Overview – “safety net” and appeals
1.9 Claiming and backdating payment
2. How Centrelink decides to pay Special Benefit – qualification
2.1 No other payment payable to a person
2.2 Person must be “unable to earn a sufficient livelihood”
2.4 Short term Special Benefit
3. Payment of Special Benefit – rate
3.2 Health Care Cards and Pensioner Concession Cards
4. Special Benefit for newly arrived residents
4.1 Newly arrived residents – qualification for Special Benefit
4.2 “Substantial change in circumstances”
4.3 Federal Court interpretation of “substantial change in circumstances”
5.2 Full-time students 18 and over
6. Special Benefit for children under 16
6.1 How a child under 16 may qualify
6.3 “Homeless” children and the Youth Protocols
6.5 Liaison with social workers
7.1 Overview of the activity test
7.2 To whom does the “nominated visa holder activity test" apply?
7.3 Exemptions from the "nominated visa holder activity test"
7.4 Requirements of the "nominated visa holder activity test"
7.5 Who may be required to enter into an Activity Agreement?
7.6 Special Benefit Activity Agreements – terms
7.7 Penalties for failing to comply with activity test requirements
8 Situations in which Special Benefit may not be payable to nominated visa holders
8.1 Seasonal workers preclusion period
8.2 Moving to an area of lower employment prospects
