Clients with dependent children - 50% protection

Clients in these situations do not have their whole benefit sanctioned. Instead, a maximum sanction of 50% of the total benefit may be imposed. The balance payable is known as 50% protection.

For more information, including treatment of supplementary assistance, see:

• Sanctions for sole parents

The 50% protection also applies to these two groups if they are subject to a 13 week non-entitlement period for voluntarily leaving employment without a good and sufficient reason or dismissal due to misconduct, or refusing to accept any offer of suitable employment.

Note if a client has more than one obligation failure initiated on the same day, only one sanction can be imposed on the client. For the sanction to be lifted, the client must dispute or recomply with all the obligation failures.

For more information see:

• Recompliance