Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:19c:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 19C (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 288296–290987

the period that the person has served; or
 (ii) if the person is subject to a seasonal work preclusion period—that part of the period that has expired; or
 (iii) if an income maintenance period applies to the person—that part of the period that has already applied to the person; or
 (iv) in relation to working out if the person is subject to an ordinary waiting period—the 4 weeks immediately before the person's start day mentioned in paragraph 500WA(1)(a), 549CA(2)(a), 620(1)(a) or 693(a);
 (b) the costs of repairs to, or replacement of, essential whitegoods situated in the person's home;
 (c) school expenses;
 (d) funeral expenses;
 (e) essential expenses arising on the birth of the person's child or the adoption of a child by the person;
 (f) expenditure to buy replacement essential household goods because of loss of those goods through theft or natural disaster when the cost of replacement is not the subject of an insurance policy;
 (g) the costs of essential repairs to the person's car or home;
 (h) premiums in respect of vehicle or home insurance;
 (i) expenses in respect of vehicle registration;
 (j) essential medical expenses;
 (k) any other costs that the Secretary determines are unavoidable or reasonable expenditure in the circumstances in relation to a person.
However, unavoidable or reasonable expenditure does not include any reasonable costs of living other than those referred to in paragraph (a).

Meaning of reasonable costs of living
 (5) The reasonable costs of living of a person include, but are not limited to, the following costs:
 (a) food costs;
 (b) rent or mortgage payments;
 (c) regular medical expenses;
 (d) rates, water and sewerage payments;
 (e) gas, electricity and telephone bills;
 (f) costs of petrol for the person's vehicle;
 (g) public transport costs;
 (h) any other cost that the Secretary determines is a reasonable cost of living in relation to a person.
 (6) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(a), the amount of reasonable costs of living that a person who is not a member of a couple is taken to have incurred, may not exceed:
 (a) in the case of a person who is serving a liquid assets test waiting period—the amount of jobseeker payment or allowance that would have been payable to the person during that part of the waiting period that the person has already served, if the person were not subject to the period; or
 (b) in the case of a person who is subject to a seasonal work preclusion period—the amount of jobseeker payment or allowance that would have been payable to the person during that part of the person's preclusion period that has already expired, if the person were not subject to the period; or
 (c) in the