Section 660M — Social Security Act 1991: Death of child—continuation of jobseeker payment rate for 14 weeks

If: (a) a person is receiving jobseeker payment; and (b) the person is the principal carer of a child who dies; and (c) apart from this section, the person’s rate of jobseeker payment would be reduced because the person is no longer the child’s principal carer; the person’s rate of jobseeker payment, during the period of 14 weeks that starts on the day of the child’s death, is to be worked out as if the child had not died. Note: For principal carer see subsections 5(15) to (24).