Section 42SB — Social Security (Administration) Act 1999: Suspension of payments for certain failures

(1) This section applies in relation to a person who: (a) is receiving a participation payment that is a parenting payment; and (b) is someone to whom paragraph 500(1)(ca) of the 1991 Act applies. (2) The Secretary may determine that the parenting payment is not payable to the person if: (a) the person fails to comply with a requirement that was notified to the person under subsection 63(2) or (4); or (b) the person fails to comply with a requirement under section 40A to enter into an employment pathway plan; or (c) the person fails to participate, on a day, in an activity that the person is required to undertake by an employment pathway plan that is in force in relation to the person; or (d) the person fails to attend an appointment that the person is required to attend by an employment pathway plan that is in force in relation to the person. (3) The parenting payment is not payable to the person for the period beginning on the day the person first commits the failure and ending at the end of: (a) the day before the day on which the person notifies the Secretary that the person intends to comply with the requirement; or (b) if the Secretary determines that an earlier day is more appropriate than the day that would otherwise apply under paragraph (a)—that earlier day. (4) If a period ends under subsection (3) in relation to the person, then, subject to the social security law, the parenting payment becomes payable to the person for that period.