Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:598:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 598 (pt 3/4)
Character Range: 941686–944364

day on which the person's partner ceased work;
 (da) if, when the claim is made, the person's partner has ceased to be enrolled in a full time course of education or of vocational training—the day following the day on which the person's partner so ceased;
 (e) if, when the claim is made, the person's partner is incapacitated for work—the day on which the person's partner became incapacitated for work.
 (4) If:
 (a) a person becomes qualified for austudy payment; and
 (b) because of paragraph 575(2)(a), austudy payment is not payable to the person while the person is subject to a liquid assets test waiting period; and
 (c) within the liquid assets test waiting period referred to in paragraph (b):
 (i) the person becomes incapacitated for study; and
 (ii) the person claims jobseeker payment; and
 (d) subparagraph 593(1)(a)(ii) applies in relation to the person;
the liquid assets test waiting period in relation to the claim for jobseeker payment starts on the day on which the person becomes qualified for austudy payment.
 (4A) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if, at any time during the 12 months preceding:
 (a) if subparagraph 593(1)(a)(ii) does not apply in relation to the person—the day following the day on which the person ceased work or ceased to be enrolled in a full time course of education or of vocational training; or
 (aa) if subparagraph 593(1)(a)(ii) applies in relation to the person—the day on which the person becomes incapacitated for work or study; or
 (b) in any case—the day on which the person claims a jobseeker payment;
the person or their partner was serving a liquid assets test waiting period that started during that 12 months.
 (5) If the Secretary is satisfied that a person is in severe financial hardship because the person has incurred unavoidable or reasonable expenditure while serving a liquid assets test waiting period, the Secretary may determine that the person does not have to serve the whole, or any part, of the waiting period.
Note 1: For in severe financial hardship see subsection 19C(2) (person who is not a member of a couple) and 19C(3) (person who is a member of a couple).
Note 2: For unavoidable or reasonable expenditure see subsection 19C(4).
 (6) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who becomes qualified for jobseeker payment at the end of a continuous period in respect of which the person received income support payments (whether or not the kind of payment received has changed over the period and whether the period or any part of it occurred before or after the commencement of this subsection).
Note 1: For income support payment see subsection 23(1).
Note 2: For the determination of