3.2.4.150 Exemption for job seeker assistance or case management for under 18s

Circumstances of exemption

This exemption may be available to YA recipients, including early school leavers (1.1.E.05) who are in case management under the supervision of state or territory authorities or a community organisation, or who are receiving Commonwealth funded intensive assistance.

YA (job seeker) recipients who are not early school leavers will also be able to gain an exemption if they will gain access to intensive employment support within the next 13 weeks.

This exemption can also be given to young people in areas where the range of activities available is extremely limited, even though they are not in formal case management. The young person must be suitable for case management and agree to undertake intensive assistance or case management. Local knowledge of activities provided by community organisations will be essential in determining which are sufficient to satisfy a young person's requirements and which will be deemed approved activities.

Duration of exemption

The young person can be given an exemption for up to 13 weeks, subject to review at the end of that time.

Mutual obligation requirements (1.1.M.160)

Young people in case management or other community based support programs may have the capacity to do other activities. In these cases, the case management MAY be considered an approved activity, and other activities MAY be required to make up a full-time load. If the case management activities take up more than 15 hours per week, then no further activities would be required.