Section 276 — Social Security Act 2018: Sanctions for failure by young person required to receive youth services to comply with obligations: other cases

276 Sanctions for failure by young person required to receive youth services to comply with obligations: other cases (1) This section applies to a young person— (a) who has been required to receive youth services under section 165(2) or 168(2) ; and (b) whose benefit is not subject to money management under section 344 ; and (c) who MSD is satisfied has, without good and sufficient reason, failed to comply with an obligation that applies to the young person under section 165(7)(a) or 168(6)(a) , and that is— (i) an obligation in section 166(2)(b) and (d) to (g) ; or (ii) the work test (in the case of a work-tested beneficiary); or (iii) a work-preparation obligation under section 124 or 125 (in the case of a beneficiary who is required to comply with section 124). (2) MSD must treat the young person’s failure referred to in subsection (1)(c)(i), (ii), or (iii),— (a) in the case of a young person who is subject to the work test, as a failure to comply with the work test for the purposes of sections 233 and 236 to 239 ; and (b) in the case of a young person who is required to comply with section 124 , as a failure to comply with a work-preparation obligation under section 124 or 125 for the purposes of sections 233 and 236 to 239 . (3) MSD must, in the case of a young person who is subject to a sanction under sections 233 and 236 to 239 for a failure that subsection (2)(a) or (b) of this section requires to be treated as having occurred: (a) suspend the young person’s incentive payments (if any) (if that sanction is a reduction or suspension of the young person’s benefit) until the young person recomplies; or (b) cancel the young person’s incentive payments (if any) (if that sanction is the cancellation of the young person’s benefit). Compare: 1964 No 136 s 174AB(3), (4)