Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:1061q:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1061Q (pt 4/5)
Character Range: 1346029–1348662

a period of 6 months from the date on which the person ceases to receive the benefit.
Note 1: For telephone subscriber see subsection (5).
Note 2: Subsection 23(4A) can affect when a person is taken to be receiving the benefit.
 (3G) If:
 (a) a person has been receiving benefit PP (partnered); and
 (b) the person ceases to receive the benefit because the person or the person's partner has employment income; and
 (c) the person's partner has turned 55; and
 (d) the person's partner:
 (i) is receiving jobseeker payment; or
 (ii) was receiving jobseeker payment immediately before the person ceased to receive benefit PP (partnered); and
 (e) immediately before the person ceases to receive the benefit, the person's partner had been receiving income support payments in respect of a continuous period of at least 9 months; and
 (f) the person is a telephone subscriber;
the person is qualified for a telephone allowance for a period of 6 months from the date on which the person ceases to receive the benefit.
Note 1: For telephone subscriber see subsection (5).
Note 2: Subsection 23(4A) can affect when a person is taken to be receiving the benefit.
 (3H) Subsection (3G) applies to a person who:
 (a) has been receiving youth allowance while the person:
 (i) has been the principal carer of at least one child; and
 (ii) has been a member of a couple; and
 (iii) has not been undertaking full‑time study; and
 (iv) has not been a new apprentice; or
 (b) has been receiving jobseeker payment while the person:
 (i) has been the principal carer of at least one child; and
 (ii) has been a member of a couple;
as if the person had been receiving benefit PP (partnered).
Note 1: For principal carer see subsections 5(15) to (24). See also subsection (3K) of this section.
Note 2: For undertaking full‑time study see section 541B.
Note 3: For new apprentice see subsection 23(1).
 (3J) A reference in paragraph (3C)(b), (3F)(b) or (3G)(b) to the employment income of a person is a reference to that person's employment income either alone or in combination with any other ordinary income earned, derived or received, or taken to have been earned, derived or received, by the person or the person's partner.
 (3K) If a person was the principal carer of a child who died, the person is taken, for the purposes of subparagraphs (3E)(a)(i) and (3H)(b)(i), to have continued to be the principal carer of the child during the period of 14 weeks that started on the day of the child's death.
 (4) For the purposes of paragraph (2B)(f), (3)(b), (3A)(e), (3F)(d) or (3G)(e), it does not matter:
 (a) whether the kind of payment received has