Section 34 — Social Security (Administration) Act 1999: Youth allowance: incapacitated claimant

If: (a) a person who is undertaking a course of full-time study becomes incapacitated for study as a result of a medical condition; and (b) the person makes a claim for a youth allowance within 5 weeks after the day on which the incapacity begins; and (c) the person continues to suffer the medical condition from the day on which the incapacity begins until the claim is made; the person’s start day in relation to the youth allowance is the first day on which the person was qualified for youth allowance in the period starting on the day on which the incapacity began and ending on the day on which the claim was made.