Advance Payment of Benefit : Contents
Attending a budgeting course or seminar
A client or partner may need to attend a budgeting course or seminar if they have a budgeting activity obligation.
Attending a budgeting course or seminar may help clients:
- who have never developed a budget before or
- who have basic budgeting skills but want to learn some tips and tricks
Acceptable budgeting course or seminar
A budgeting course or seminar does not have to be provided by a budgeting service (eg it may be provided by another community organisation or a bank).
To be considered a budgeting activity the course or seminar must include information on:
- learning how to budget or
- developing a budget or
- improving budgeting skills
For more information see:
- Attending a budgeting advice service
- Completing a budgeting worksheet
- Budgeting activity obligation
- Reasonable steps obligation
- Failure to meet hardship obligations
- Building Financial Capability services [no link find out why] procedures
- Adding plan items and resulting activities in CMS [no link find out why] procedures
Legislation
- Advance payment of instalments of benefit section 347 Social Security Act 2018
- Requirement for beneficiary, spouse or partner, or both, to undertake budgeting activity section 348 Social Security Act 2018
- Advance payment of benefits regulations 201-204 Social Security Regulations 2018
- Exercise of Discretion clause 6.4 Direction on Advance Payments of Instalments of Benefit
