Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Coronavirus and Other Measures) Act 2020 (97 of 2020)

Schedule 2   Youth allowance independence and paid work concession

Social Security Act 1991

1   After subsection 1067A(10L)

Insert:

(10M) For the purposes of the application of paragraph (10)(a), (b) or (d) in relation to a person:

(a) if, for a week that falls wholly in the 2-year period referred to in paragraph (10)(a) and wholly in the COVID-19 concession period, the person was not in paid work consisting of full-time employment of at least 30 hours - the person is taken, for that week, to have been in paid work consisting of full-time employment of 30 hours; and

(b) if, for a week that falls wholly in the 2-year period referred to in paragraph (10)(b) and wholly in the COVID-19 concession period, the person was not in paid work consisting of part-time employment of at least 15 hours - the person is taken, for that week, to have been in paid work consisting of part-time employment of 15 hours; and

(c) if, for a week that falls wholly in the 14-month period referred to in paragraph (10)(d) and wholly in the COVID-19 concession period, the person was not in paid work consisting of employment that earnt the person at least the equivalent of 75% of the maximum rate applicable under that paragraph on 25 March 2020 - the person is taken, for that week, to have been in paid work consisting of employment that earnt the person 75% of that maximum rate.

(10N) For the purposes of subsection (10M), the COVID-19 concession period is the period:

(a) beginning on 25 March 2020; and

(b) ending at the end of 24 September 2020.