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

Schedule 5   Cessation of sickness allowance

Part 1   Amendments commencing 20 March 2020

Social Security Act 1991

19   Before Division 1 of Part 2.14

Insert:

Division 1A - Time limit on grants of sickness allowance

666A Time limit on grants

(1) Despite anything else in this Part, sickness allowance must not be granted to a person:

(a) unless the person's claim for the allowance is made before 20 March 2020; and

(b) the person is qualified for the allowance, and the allowance is payable to the person, before that day.

Note: A person's claim for sickness allowance may be taken to have been made before 20 March 2020 in accordance with section 12 or 15 of the Administration Act.

(2) This section does not apply in relation to a determination by the Secretary under section 85 of the Administration Act.