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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 737

Full - time students

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (3), a special benefit is not payable to a person:

  (a)   who has turned 18; or

  (b)   who satisfies both of the following:

  (i)   the person has not turned 16; and

  (ii)   the person is not a SPB homeless person;

if the person is enrolled in a full - time course of education or of vocational training.

Note:   For SPB homeless person see section   739.

Period for which benefit not payable

  (2)   The period for which a special benefit is not payable under subsection   (1) is the period that:

  (a)   starts when the person starts the course; and

  (b)   finishes when the person:

  (i)   completes the course; or

  (ii)   abandons the course; or

  (iii)   gives notice to the provider of the course that the person:

  (A)   wishes to withdraw from the course; or

  (B)   wishes to withdraw from such number of subjects that the person's course will no longer be a full - time course; and

  (c)   includes periods of vacation.

Subsection   (1) does not apply in certain cases

  (3)   Subsection   (1) does not prevent a special benefit from being payable for any period during which:

  (a)   a person is enrolled in a course of study that the Secretary has required the person to undertake under section   736; or

  (b)   the person is engaged in a course undertaken under an employment pathway plan; or

  (c)   the person has deferred a course of education.


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