Section 1067F — Social Security Act 1991: Long term income support student

(1) A person is a long term income support student if the person: (a) is at least 22 years old; and (ba) does not have a dependent child; and (c) is either: (i) undertaking full-time study in respect of a course of education that the person had commenced after turning 22; or (ii) a new apprentice and became a new apprentice after turning 22; and (d) has, for at least 26 weeks out of the period of 39 weeks that ended when the person commenced to undertake the full-time study or became a new apprentice, been receiving one or more of the following: (i) jobseeker payment; (iii) youth allowance (disregarding youth allowance received while the person was undertaking full-time study); (iv) special benefit; (v) disability support pension; (vii) carer payment; (x) pension PP (single); (xi) sole parent pension; (xii) benefit parenting allowance; (xiii) benefit PP (partnered). (2) A person is also a long term income support student if the person: (a) is at least 22 years old; and (c) does not have English as a first language; and (d) is undertaking a course in English, being a course that the Secretary has approved.