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Income less than a disqualifying rate

Where an Emergency Maintenance Allowance client starts work during the initial stand-down period, you do not re-assess the client's commencement date when:

  • their level of income is less than a disqualifying rate and
  • employment continues beyond the original commencement date

In this situation you charge the clients earnings (income) against their benefit from the original commencement date.

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When the level of income the client receives is high enough (when charged against the benefit) to reduce the benefit to a nil rate of payment.