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8.4 SIFS - grandfathering provisions

Summary

From 1 July 2017, SIFS is no longer available to new claimants. Grandfathering arrangements permit existing recipients who were entitled to SIFS on 30 June 2017 to continue to receive SIFS, if they remain continuously eligible for the payment.

Those recipients will be grandfathered until the first day that they are no longer eligible for SIFS. For example, if they do not have a SIFS qualifying child, the family does not meet the income tests, the recipient and/or SIFS qualifying child is outside Australia for a period of more than 6 weeks regardless of when the period of absence began, or for other relevant reasons, their grandfathered status will end. Recipients must be continuously eligible and entitled to be paid SIFS each day since 30 June 2017 to remain grandfathered.

Last reviewed: 20 September 2024

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