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3.6.4.130 Supplementary benefits & employment assistance for CP recipients

Other benefits

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

  • carer allowance
  • rent assistance
  • pension supplement
  • remote area allowance
  • PCC or HCC
  • crisis payment
  • energy supplement, AND
  • EdEP if participating in education/training.

Carers who receive CP (child) may automatically qualify for and receive CA for each qualifying child.

Carers who receive CP qualify for a PCC.

Exception: Carers who receive CP (child) under short term (1.1.S.172) or episodic (1.1.E.132) provisions qualify for a HCC.

The partner of a person receiving CP may test their qualification for other payments such as JSP.

Act reference: SSAct section 665ZFA to section 665ZFB Payment to a CP recipient, section 1061ZA General qualification rules (PCC), section 954B Qualification for CA-receiving CP for caring for child or children

Policy reference: SS Guide 3.2.1 JSP - qualification & payability, 3.6.7 CA - qualification & payability, 3.6.7.35 Qualification for CA (child) - automatic qualification for CA (child) through qualification for CP (child), 3.8.1 RA - qualification & payability, 3.12.1 Pension supplement - qualification & payability, 3.8.6 EdEP - qualification & payability, 3.7.4 CrP - qualification & payability, 3.15.1 CEA - qualification & payability, 3.15.2 ES - qualification & payability

Employment incentives

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

  • access to working credits
  • payment of certain supplementary benefits during the employment income nil rate period
  • continued use of their 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 CP to be payable again.

Act reference: SSAct section 23(4A) Despite subsection (4) …, section 23(4AA) For the purposes of subsection (4A) …, section 1061ZEA Further extended qualification rule: loss of payment because of employment income, section 1073J Working credit balance prevents loss of qualification in certain cases

Policy reference: SS Guide 3.1.11 Working credit, 3.1.12 Employment income nil rate period, 3.9.2.30 PCC extension rules

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