Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:5:p6
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Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 6/13)
Character Range: 1928356–1931080

for a period (the income maintenance period) equal to the period to which the payment relates.

Exception to points 1068‑G7AG and 1068‑G7AH
 1068‑G7AI Point 1068‑G7AG or 1068‑G7AH does not apply in relation to a person's entitlement referred to in paragraph 1068‑G7AG(c) or in relation to a person's termination payment referred to in paragraph 1068‑G7AH(b) if:
 (a) the person makes a claim for jobseeker payment on or after the commencement of this point; and
 (b) the person makes the claim after the death of the person's partner on or after the commencement of this point; 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; and
 (e) the entitlement referred to in paragraph 1068‑G7AG(c) arose, or the termination payment referred to in paragraph 1068‑G7AH(b) was paid, in the period applicable under paragraph (c) or (d) of this point.

More than one termination payment on a day
 1068‑G7AJ If:
 (a) the person is covered by point 1068‑G7AH; and
 (b) the person receives more than one termination payment on a day;
the income maintenance period is worked out by adding the periods to which the payments relate.

Start of income maintenance period—employment continuing
 1068‑G7AK If the person is covered by point 1068‑G7AG, the income maintenance period starts on the first day of the leave period to which the leave payment entitlement relates.

Start of income maintenance period—employment terminated
 1068‑G7AKA Subject to point 1068‑G7AKC, if the person is covered by point 1068‑G7AH, the income maintenance period starts, subject to point 1068‑G7AKB, on the day the person is paid the termination payment.

Commencement of income maintenance period where there is a second termination payment
 1068‑G7AKB If a person who is covered by point 1068‑G7AH is subject to an income maintenance period (the first period) and the person is paid another termination payment during that period (the second leave payment), the income maintenance period for the second termination payment commences the day after the end of the first period.

Start of income maintenance period where liquid assets test waiting period applies
 1068‑G7AKC If a person to whom point 1068‑G7AKA applies is subject to a liquid assets test waiting period,