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In forceDeath of child—continuation of jobseeker payment rate for 14 weeks
Volume 2Chapter 2, Part 2.11 to Chapter 2A, Part 2A1, sections 540-1061ZUC
Chapter 2Pensions, benefits and allowances
Part 2.12Jobseeker payment
Division 9Bereavement payments
Subdivision BContinuation of jobseeker payment rate after death of child
660M Death of child—continuation of jobseeker payment rate for 14 weeks
If:
(a)
a person is receiving jobseeker payment; and
(b)
the person is the principal carer of a child who dies; and
(c)
apart from this section, the person’s rate of jobseeker payment would be reduced because the person is no longer the child’s principal carer;
the person’s rate of jobseeker payment, during the period of 14 weeks that starts on the day of the child’s death, is to be worked out as if the child had not died.
Note:
For principal carer see subsections 5(15) to (24).
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