3.2.3.50 Supplementary benefits & employment assistance for YA recipients

Supplementary benefits

YA recipients MAY also qualify for the following assistance if they meet the relevant qualification criteria:

• rent assistance (1.2.7.10)
• pharmaceutical allowance (1.2.7.20)
• telephone allowance (1.2.7.70)
• crisis payment (1.2.6.30)
• energy supplement (1.2.7.50)
• bereavement payment (3.1.5)
• health care card (1.2.8.10)
• PCC in restricted circumstances (1.2.8.20)
  
  • Explanation: A YA (other) recipient receives a PCC where they are a single principal carer parent or have been assessed as having a partial capacity to work.
• remote area allowance (1.2.7.80)
• fares allowance (1.2.7.90)
• mobility allowance (1.2.5.40)
• student start-up loan (1.2.7.165)
• relocation scholarship (1.2.7.150)
• APWS for recipients participating in the following activities: WFD or NWEP
• language, literacy and numeracy training and supplement (1.2.7.110)
• PES in limited circumstances (1.2.7.30), and/or
• youth disability supplement (1.2.7.140).

YA (other) is a YA recipient who is other than a YA full-time student or YA Australian Apprentice (1.1.A.324).

Employment incentives

YA recipients may receive the following incentives to take up a job:

• access to working credits or student income bank
• payment of certain supplementary benefits during the employment income nil rate period
• continued use of their HCC or PCC for a certain period, and
• able to have their payment resumed during the employment income nil rate period if they report a fall in income sufficient for YA to be payable again.

Transfer to JSP

YA recipients who are not full time students or Australian Apprentices transfer to JSP on their 22nd birthday. A JSP claim form is required. They are no longer subject to the parental means test (1.1.P.45), and de facto relationships of less than 12 months duration are recognised. Such relationships would mean the partner income test would apply, unless the partner is a dependent YA recipient (1.1.D.100) or dependent ABSTUDY living allowance recipient.

YA students aged 22 years and over lose qualification for YA when they cease full-time study (1.1.F.230), or drop below a full-time load. If their circumstances have not otherwise changed, they can claim JSP.

Inappropriate claims

The following table describes YA recipients in special circumstances, who may be better off seeking a different payment: