Social Security Act 1991

Subject to subsections (2) and (4), if a person is subject to an ordinary waiting period, the ordinary waiting period is the period of 7 days that starts on the person’s start day (worked out disregarding clauses 4A and 5 of Schedule 2 to the Administration Act).

Subject to subsection (4), if:

a person is subject to an ordinary waiting period; and

apart from this subsection, the ordinary waiting period would be the period of 7 days that starts on the person’s start day (worked out disregarding clauses 4A and 5 of Schedule 2 to the Administration Act); and

that start day falls within one or more of the following periods (each of which is an exclusion period) that the person is subject to:

a liquid assets test waiting period;

a newly arrived resident’s waiting period;

a seasonal work preclusion period;

a lump sum preclusion period under Part 3.14;

an income maintenance period, where the person’s rate of youth allowance on that start day would be nil;

If:

subparagraph (2)(c)(v) applies to a person; and

on a day in that income maintenance period, the person’s rate of youth allowance would be greater than nil if youth allowance were payable to the person on that day;

If:

a person qualifies for a social security payment (other than youth allowance); and

because the person is subject to an ordinary waiting period relating to that payment, that payment is not payable to the person for a period starting on a particular day (the initial day); and

during that period the person:

ceases to be qualified for that payment; and

claims youth allowance and is qualified for youth allowance, where neither subparagraph 540(1)(a)(i) (about full‑time study) nor section 540AA (about new apprentices) applies;

Ordinary waiting periods apply to parenting payment, youth allowance and jobseeker payment.