Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Act 2018 (26 of 2018)

Schedule 4   Cessation of bereavement allowance

Social Security Act 1991

18   At the end of section 549A

Add:

Exception - death of person's partner

(7) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if:

(a) the person makes a claim for youth allowance on or after the commencement of this subsection; and

(b) the person makes the claim after the death of the person's partner on or after the commencement of this subsection; and

(c) if the person is a man or a woman who was not pregnant when her partner died - the person makes the claim in the period of 14 weeks starting on the day of the death of the partner; and

(d) if the person is a woman who was pregnant when her partner died - the person makes the claim:

(i) in the period of 14 weeks starting on the day of the death of the partner; or

(ii) in the period starting on the day of the death of the partner and ending when the child is born or the woman otherwise stops being pregnant;

whichever ends later.