11.1.1.50 Trigger payments for income management
Trigger payments
Under the VWPR and VIM Measures of income management, a person must be receiving a category H payment to be assessed as eligible for income management. Under the Child Protection Measure and the SPAR Measure, a person or their partner must be receiving a category H payment to be assessed as eligible for income management.
Under the Disengaged Youth and Long-term Welfare Payment Recipients Measures, a person must be receiving a category E payment to be assessed as eligible for income management.
Under the Cape York Welfare Reform, a person or their partner must be receiving a category P or category R payment to be assessed as eligible for income management. For more information on trigger payments under the Cape York Welfare Reform, see 11.2.3.
Category E payments
Below is a list of category E payments under the SSAct:
- youth allowance
- jobseeker payment
- special benefit
- parenting payment (single), and
- parenting payment (partnered).
Category H payments
Below is a list of category H payments under the SSAct:
- social security benefit
- youth allowance
- austudy payment
- jobseeker payment
- special benefit
- parenting payment (partnered)
- social security pension
- age pension
- disability support pension
- carer payment
- parenting payment (single)
- special needs pension
- a payment under the ABSTUDY scheme that includes an amount as identified as living allowance
- service pension
- age service pension under Part III of the VEA
- invalidity service pension under Part III of the VEA
- partner service pension under Part III of the VEA
- carer service pension under Part III of the VEA
- income support supplement.